1st Edition
Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth Global Perspectives
Foreword 1. Introduction Part One: Stigma 2. Childhood Disability and Clothing: (Un)dressing debates 3. ‘They should have stayed’: Blaming street children and disruption of the intergenerational contract 4. Subverting neighbourhood normalcy and the impacts on child wellbeing in Malta 5. ‘Bad Children’: International stigmatisation of children trained to kill during war and armed conflict Part Two: Work, Education and Activism 6. Other(ed) Childhoods: Supplementary Schools and the Politics of Learning 7. Not an ‘other’ childhood: child labour laws, working children and childhood in Bolivia 8. Unschooling and the simultaneous development and mitigation of ‘otherness’ amongst home schooling families 9. Being seen, being heard: Engaging and valuing young people as political actors and activists Part Three: Out of Place 10. Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse as ‘Children out of Place’ 11. Realising Childhood in an Urdu-Speaking Bihari Community in Bangladesh 12. Discovering Difference in Outer Suburbia: Mapping, intra-activity and alternative directedness in Shaun Tan’s Eric 13. Transnational Practices and Children’s Local Lives in Times of Economic Crisis 14. Conclusion. Appendix
Biography
Nadia von Benzon is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Lancaster, UK.
Catherine Wilkinson is a Senior Lecturer in Educaton at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
