1st Edition
Society and Social Changes through the Prism of Childhood
Introduction: Society and social changes through the prism of childhood
Hanne Warming
1. From childhood studies to childism: reconstructing the schorlarly and social imagination
John Wall
2. Found childhood as a practice of child as method
Erica Burman
3. Childhood prism research: an approach for enabling unique childhood studies contributions within the wider scholarly field
Hanne Warming
4. Conflituality and situated inequality in children’s school life
Charlotte Højholt
5. Children as potential: a window to cultural ideas, anxieties and conflicts
Laura Gilliam and Eva Gulløv
6. Thinking through memories of children in (post)socialist spaces: ordinary lives in extraordinary times
Zsuzsa Millei, Iveta Silova and Susanne Gannon
7. Reconfiguring child-adult relationships in foster care with implications for childhood studies
Ida Hammen
8. Reading children in comics: a sociohistorical mapping
Maaheen Ahmed
Biography
Hanne Warming is Professor of Sociology and Childhood, and Head of the Research Group ‘Social dynamics and change’ at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has published with great impact in the fields of childhood studies, as well as on policy and practice and has led sizeable research projects supported by a range of funding bodies. Her research has been price rewarded, and she is recorded in the European Expert Database of Outstanding Female Academics, “Academianet”. She is member of various advisory boards, includingfor the Childism Institute, Rutgers Camden, US. Her research fields of expertise include childhood and youth, social work, lived citizenship, social interaction, methodology and ethics in researching childhood research, as well as how theorizing and findings from childhood studies can inform more broad societal issues and change processes.
