This landmark publication in the study of children and childhood signals the recognition of a significant area of study. Childhood studies has both matured and...

In her groundbreaking book, Educating Young Giants, Nancy Pine reveals how reliance on antiquated teaching methods and ineffectual reform efforts has left...

This topicalbook uses the recent Dano Sonnex and Baby Peter cases to analyze the problems facing both probation and child protection under conditions of...

"...This topicalbook uses the recent Dano Sonnex and Baby Peter cases to analyze the problems facing both probation and child protection under conditions of.... This topicalbook uses the recent Dano Sonnex and Baby Peter cases to analyze the problems facing both probation and child protection under conditions of economic recession and public spending cuts.. "A powerful and incisive analysis of some of the main changes in Probation and Children's Social Work over the last forty years, together with..."

This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about...

Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an ethnographic study of secondary school youth growing up in a rural town in the Venezuelan Andes in the 1990s. Janise...

This book is the most extensive contribution to our understanding of the graffiti subculture to date. Using insights from ethnographic research conducted in...

The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of "law and order" to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy that threatens...

"...The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of "law and order" to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy that threatens.... The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of "law and order" to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy that threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve. Analyzing the profound changes in UK youth crime in the 1980s, this book posits the French Social Prevention Initiative of the 1980s a..."

Peter Kirby's analytical survey of child labor during the industrial revolution asserts that the concentration by some historians and social commentators upon...

"...Peter Kirby's analytical survey of child labor during the industrial revolution asserts that the concentration by some historians and social commentators upon.... Peter Kirby's analytical survey of child labor during the industrial revolution asserts that the concentration by some historians and social commentators upon small numbers of industrially-employed children has diverted attention from the important role of the working child within the context of the family, the labor market and the st..."

The study of children's literature is currently receiving much public and critical attention. Organized to show developments in children's literature over time...

"...The study of children's literature is currently receiving much public and critical attention. Organized to show developments in children's literature over time.... The study of children's literature is currently receiving much public and critical attention. Organized to show developments in children's literature over time and across genres, this attractively illustrated introductory guide looks at key British, American and Australian works, from picture books and texts for younger children, to ..."

The first publication on Russian theatre for children and youth in English, this book reveals the complex and important role of theatre for youth throughout...

"...The first publication on Russian theatre for children and youth in English, this book reveals the complex and important role of theatre for youth throughout.... Moscow Theatres for Young People shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth, as exemplified by the two oldest theatres for children and youth in Moscow: the Central Children's Theatre/RAMT and the Moscow Tiuz. Weaving together politics, economics, pedagogy, and aesthetics th..."

Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children’s media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy. Theorizing after-school care as intermediary space,...

"...Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children’s media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy. Theorizing after-school care as intermediary space,.... Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children’s media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy. Theorizing after-school care as intermediary space, a large-scale ethnographic study informs this theory-rich and practical discussion of children’s media use beyond home and classroom.. ..."

Spirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan’s most successful film, and one of the top-grossing ‘foreign language’ films...

The film-maker Lynne Ramsay has been hailed as one of the finest new talents in world cinema, and Ratcatcher, her first feature, has attracted international...

"...The film-maker Lynne Ramsay has been hailed as one of the finest new talents in world cinema, and Ratcatcher, her first feature, has attracted international.... The film-maker Lynne Ramsay has been hailed as one of the finest new talents in world cinema, and Ratcatcher, her first feature, has attracted international acclaim. In this book, the first full-length study of Ramsay’s work, Annette Kuhn considers the director’s background and explores Ratcatcher alongside her other films. Kuhn places ..."

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) Vittorio de Sica, 1948 is unarguably one of the fundamental films in the history of cinema. It is also one of the most...

Set in "a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles", Terence Davies' film "Distant Voices, Still Lives" is an elegiac and intensely...

"...Set in "a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles", Terence Davies' film "Distant Voices, Still Lives" is an elegiac and intensely.... Set in "a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles", Terence Davies' film "Distant Voices, Still Lives" is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood. This study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies' unique visual style.. ..."

This book focuses on the vulnerability of beyond-risk young females connected to male street-based youth gangs involved in violence, drug use, crime and sexual...

This book is an exploration of the extent to which young people in the UK are disaffected with traditional politics, and particularly the role played by...

"...This book is an exploration of the extent to which young people in the UK are disaffected with traditional politics, and particularly the role played by.... This book is an exploration of the extent to which young people in the UK are disaffected with traditional politics, and particularly the role played by televisual representations of the political process. The authors look at how television represents young people themselves, and at how young people use new forms of media to inform themselv..."

This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in instuitutions in a variety of...

"...This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in instuitutions in a variety of.... This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives ininstitutions in a variety of countries. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of modern child l..."

In exploring childrens own everyday food encounters, alongside the ways in which childhood identities are constructed and mediated through food, this book...

"...In exploring childrens own everyday food encounters, alongside the ways in which childhood identities are constructed and mediated through food, this book.... In exploring childrens own everyday food encounters, alongside the ways in which childhood identities are constructed and mediated through food, this book enables a measured and insightful understanding of the various and subtle dimensions of the relationship between children, food and identity.. ..."

Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed investigates a performance strategy which aims to develop possible alternatives to oppressive forces in individual’s lives....

This lively and accessible collection of essays by leading scholars provides an overview of Children's Literature and is likely to become the standard textbook...

"...This lively and accessible collection of essays by leading scholars provides an overview of Children's Literature and is likely to become the standard textbook.... How has children’s literature been defined? In what ways has it changed over time? How are the classics of children’s literature established? What is the impact of digital media and globalization on books for children? Children’s Literature: Approaches and Territories provides a social and literary overview of the field of Anglophone..."

Provides students and teachers of Children's Literature with access to high quality critical material on the most widely studied classic and contemporary...

This book explores what it means to be a twin and to what extent twins can shape or 'escape' their identities as twins. It investigates how social...

"...This book explores what it means to be a twin and to what extent twins can shape or 'escape' their identities as twins. It investigates how social.... This book explores what it means to be a twin and to what extent twins can shape or 'escape' their identities as twins. It investigates how social expectations about twins shape twins' lives and how twins utilize their bodies, space and talk to actively display and perform their own identities.. ..."

In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the commercialisation of childhood. This...

"...In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the commercialisation of childhood. This.... In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the commercialisation of childhood. This book sheds light on these debates, offering new empirical data and challenging critical perspectives on childrens engagement with consumer culture from a wide range of international s..."