The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies showcases the cutting-edge theoretical work that has been produced within the field of childhood studies. It speaks to both scholars and students in the field by addressing basic questions such as what childhood is, how childhoods are diversely constructed and how childrens experiences can be better understood. The volume draws together a wide range of theoretical perspectives from the social sciences, humanities, politics, postcolonialism, feminism, critical race studies, queer theory, disabilities studies to generate a much-needed conversation about how to move childhood studies forward as a grounded field of research. The volume is subdivided into three broad sections - subjectivities, relationalities, and structures - each of which contains around ten chapters from a diversity of disciplines and author identities. The chapters are written by experts from Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, India, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA.

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Sarada Balagopalan is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, USA. John Wall is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Religion with Joint Appointment in the Department of Childhood Studies, and Director of the Childism Institute, at Rutgers University, USA. Karen Wells is Professor of Human Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.