Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth - Global Perspectives

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

Contributions present international narratives from a broad range of contexts and locales, demonstrating the ways in which children's lives are shaped by intersecting identities and notions of difference.

Product details

• Authors: Nadia Wilkinson Von Benzon
• Assisted by: Nadia von Benzon (Editor), Nadia von Benzon (Editor), Catherine Wilkinson (Editor), Wilkinson Catherine (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138608290
• ISBN: 978-1-138-60829-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series; Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Human Geography