Childhood - Anthropology Products

Edited by Marit Skivenes, Karl Harald Søvig

Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected. Children´s new position and their strong rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between family and the state. The United Nations Convention on the Rights…

Hardback – 2019-03-14 
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Routledge Research in International Law

By Elly Thomas

This book sheds new light on the creative processes behind the work of Eduardo Paolozzi and Philip Guston. In examining the artists’ processes as play, the volume demonstrates how an artist’s work lies beyond defined art movements. Elly Thomas explores the lasting impact of childhood play, drawing…

Hardback – 2019-03-08 
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Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

By Sheila Greene, Elizabeth Nixon

This novel book approaches the topic of children’s agency from a fresh perspective, emphasising what psychological and developmental science can bring to a debate which has been dominated by sociology and anthropology. It reviews research on agency from family, school and wider society domains,…

Paperback – 2018-11-30 
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By George E. Dickinson, Brenda S. Sanders

With a rapidly aging population throughout the world, the issue of larger percentages of older adults has repercussions for both policy and the job market. Whether a university student about to seek a full-time job or a caregiver for an older person, Aging in the Family should enhance the reader’s…

Paperback – 2018-11-20 
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By John Newson, Elizabeth Newson

Edited by Peter Barnes, Susan Gregory

This book is about the lives of 11-year-old children growing up in a Midlands city in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Based on interviews with their parents, it describes family life at the time, as well as the experiences, hopes and concerns of the children as they themselves become adolescents. The…

Paperback – 2018-10-18
Routledge

Edited by Kate Gleeson, Timothy Willem Jones

In recent years the sexual abuse of children in religious institutions has gripped the Western world, as churches, governments and civil society attempt to come to terms with the magnitude of widespread historical abuses. Questions continue to be asked about why it is that perpetrators were able to…

Hardback – 2018-10-02
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Edited by Hasina Banu Ebrahim, Auma Okwany, Oumar Barry

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe and yet there is a persistent lack of diverse knowledge perspectives on this critical phase. This stems from dominant Eurocentric framings of…

Hardback – 2018-09-19
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Edited by Andrée-Anne Cormier, Christine Sypnowich

In making the argument for the remedy of inequality, contemporary political philosophers often emphasize the arbitrariness of disadvantage, stressing how one’s lot in life is to a significant extent determined by the circumstances of one’s birth, that is, in which family, and in what part of the…

Hardback – 2018-09-18
Routledge

By Myisha Priest

This book explores the ways that figures of Black children and writing for them articulate complex and contested notions of justice arising from the entanglements of black freedom and black subjection, articulations made material in spectacular performances on the political stage. Connecting…

Hardback – 2018-08-31
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Children's Literature and Culture

By Elee Kirk, Will Buckingham

Children are one of the major audiences for museums, but their visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum learning. In Snapshots of Museum Experience, Will Buckingham draws upon Elee Kirk’s research amongst child visitors to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, to…

Hardback – 2018-06-21
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Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Chris Pascal, Tony Bertram, Marika Veisson

Change is now a dominant feature of early childhood systems around the globe and many countries are currently facing significant economic, social and political developments that bring additional challenges that teaching and learning practices need to be able to respond to in a positive and…

Hardback – 2018-06-14
Routledge

By Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Asta Cekaite

Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationships in the family, examining forms of control, care, and creativity. Making use of the extensive video archives of family interaction in the US and Sweden…

Hardback – 2018-04-05
Routledge
Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis