This volume compiles 14 chapters by an international group of sociologists and other specialists, who examine the place, purpose, and value of children in the family, focusing on their participation and the importance of relationality, connectedness, and generation within the family. They discuss how the child in the context of family has been addressed in childhood studies literature; how "child" and "family" are framed in Chinese and West African contexts and how these concepts are enacted through discourse; childrens participation in families in Ireland; childhood, family, and collective memory in Ukraine; consent, corporal punishment, and sexual violence in children's everyday lives; childhood in Austrian contexts where the home is also a place of work; what makes a "good child" in children's school relationships in China; children as moral agents in the parenting relationship in Chile; children's rights and experiences in the context of family and national constraints in Nigeria; how children are depicted as nationalized subjects and resources for the future in Palestine; how children's agency manifests in the display and use of childhood and parenthood objects in home spaces in the US; unaccompanied immigrant minors in the US; children's gendered bedrooms in Brazil; and children's involvement in the freedom movement in Kashmir. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Introduction; Sam Frankel and Sally McNamee
Chapter
1. Whos zooming (out on) who?: reconceptualising family and domestic
spaces in childhood studies; Julie Seymour
Chapter
2. The (cross-cultural) problem of categories: who is child, what
is family?; Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Ruth Evans, with Guo Yu and Fatou
Kébé
Chapter
3. Childrens voice in the home: a relational, generational space;
Deirdre Horgan, Shirley Martin, Catherine Forde
Chapter
4. Children's Agency and Intergenerational Remembering: Towards a
Generational Approach to Social Memory; Vita Yakovlyeva
Chapter
5. Beyond Yes And No: Practicing Consent In Childrens Everyday
Lives; Mackenzie Mountford
Chapter
6. When Mom And Dad Are Working, I Build Lego. Children“s
Perspectives On Everyday Family Life And Home In The Context Of Parental
Home-Based Work Arrangements; Jana Mikats
Chapter
7. Who are good friends? Chinese parents influences on childrens
friend selection; Yan Zhu
Chapter
8. Understanding And Caring For Parents: Moral Reflexivity In The
Discourse Of Chilean Children; Ana Vergara, Mauricio Sepślveda And Irene
Salvo
Chapter
9. Children in Families: Contexts of Experiences and Participation in
Nigeria; Olayinka Akanle and Ewajesu Opeyemi Okewumi
Chapter
10. A Present Absence: Representations Of Palestinian Children In The
Home: Bree Akesson And Omri Grinberg
Chapter
11. Positioning Childrens Agency in Everyday Home Spaces and
Objects: Linking Theory and Research; Michelle Janning
Chapter
12. Sociology of the Transnational Child:The case study of
unaccompanied immigrant minors
From the Northern Triangle; Hansel Alejandro Aguilar Avila
Chapter
13. Childrens Bedroom As An Instance Of Socialization; Cibele
Noronha De Carvalho And Maria Alice Nogueira
Chapter
14. Children Of Kashmir And The Meaning Of Family; Tamanna Shah
Sam Frankel is Associate Professor at Kings University College at Western University, Canada and is a Visiting Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Sally McNamee is Associate Professor at Kings University College at Western University, Canada.
