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Livre 36 sur 54: Studies in Childhood and Youth

Spyrou, Spyros

 
9781137479037: Disclosing Childhoods: Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies
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ISBN 10 : 1137479035 ISBN 13 : 9781137479037
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

Disclosing Childhoods offers a critical account of knowledge production in childhood studies. The book argues for the need to be reflexive about the knowledge practices of the field and to scrutinize the role of researchers in disclosing certain childhoods rather than others. A relational lens is used to critique the ongoing fixation of childhood studies with the unitary child-agent and to re-introduce the question of ontology in knowledge production. The author provides a critical account of childhood studies' trajectory, as well as exploring the key concepts of voice, agency and participation, illustrating the potential of a reflexive stance towards knowledge production. Drawing on poststructuralist and posthumanist thinking, each of these concepts is critiqued for its conceptual limits while productive avenues are offered to reconfigure their utility. Spyrou also addresses the ethics and politics of knowledge production and considers key emerging insights which can contribute towards the development of a more reflexive and critical childhood studies.

Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, anthropology, sociology and geography, will find this book of interest, as well as those interested in qualitative research methodology and social theory.

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À propos de l'auteur

Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the European University Cyprus and Director of the Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence. He co-edited Children and Borders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1137479035
ISBN 13 
9781137479037
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
250
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