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Handbook of Children and Youth Studies

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Johanna Wyn

    1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Helen Cahill

    1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  3. Hernan Cuervo

    1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Draws on global research to explore and challenge established conceptions of childhood and youth
  • Recognizes the changing political, environmental and economic conditions that forge contemporary childhood and youth
  • Promotes debate about the conceptual and methodological tools that are used to understand young lives

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Table of contents (117 entries)

  1. “Black Neighborhoods” and “Race,” Placed Identities in Youth Transition to Adulthoods

    • Tracey Reynolds

  2. “Let’s Go 50/50”: The Everyday Embodiment of Sexuality Among African Young People

    • Memory Mphaphuli, Lauren Graham

  3. “Middling” African International Students in China

    • Benjamin Mulvey

  4. “Non-Traditional” Educational Mobilities: Patterns, Discourses, and Transformative Possibilities

    • Sarah Jane D. Lipura, Francis L. Collins

  5. “School for Houses”: Conditional Housing Pathways for Young People in the UK

    • Thomas Rochow, Mark Wong

  6. “Staying Home” and Domestic Student (Im)mobilities: Thinking Through “Stuckness” Beyond COVID-19

    • Mark Holton, Kirsty Finn

  7. “We Need to Talk About Learning”: Dialogue and Learning Amongst South African Youth

    • Adam Cooper

  8. Approaches to Understanding Youth Well-Being

    • Helen Cahill, Annie Gowing

  9. Approaches to Youth Studies and Identity

    • Audrey Yue, Elizer Jay de los Reyes

  10. Atmospheres of Youth Climate Justice Activism: Movements of Affective Political Participation

    • David Rousell, Eve Mayes, Blanche Verlie

  11. Belief, Not Religion: Youth Negotiations of Religious Identity in Canada

    • Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley

  12. Belonging in Troubling Times: Considerations from the Vantage Point of Arab American Immigrant Youth

    • Thea Renda Abu El-Haj

  13. Beyond Climate Strikes: Intersectionality and Environmental Care

    • Catherine Walker, Ellen van Holstein

  14. Bodies In and Out of Place: Schooling and the Production of Gender Identities Through Embodied Experience

    • Mary Jane Kehily

  15. Bodies in Childhood and Youth Studies: An Introduction

    • Julia Coffey, Juliet Watson, Niamh White

  16. Childhood and Youth Citizenship

    • Kylie Smith

  17. Children and Young People Contesting Citizenship

    • Philippa Collin, Faith Gordon

  18. Children and Youth: Influences on Policy and Practice

    • Nicola Taylor

  19. Children in Alternative and New Religious Movements in North America

    • Jessica Pratezina

  20. Children, Young People and Diverse Worldviews: Religion, Spirituality and Non-religion

    • Kim Lam, Anna Halafoff
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About this book

The second edition of the Springer Handbook of Childhood and Youth Studies provides an expanded introduction to the field. Emphasising critical perspectives on childhood and youth, the handbook represents a shift away from reductive, problem-centric views, to explore 15 contemporary themes: Thinking about Children and Young People, Well-being, Social Justice, Citizenship, Identities, Place, Time and Space, Labour, Bodies, Religions and Spiritualities, Play, Learning, Dwelling, Mobilities, Climate, and Youth Participation and the Political. The contributing authors are drawn from a wide range of countries, to provide insights about the key themes from research in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the United Kingdom, North America, China, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Botswana and South Africa.  A defining feature of these authors is that they are scholars who challenge established conceptions of youth and childhood and promote overt discussion of the conceptual and methodological tools that are used to understand their lives. The result for the second edition is a plurality of views that offer a deep engagement with the intersecting and changing social, political, environmental and economic conditions in which contemporary childhood and youth are forged.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Johanna Wyn, Helen Cahill, Hernan Cuervo

About the editors

Johanna Wyn is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Youth Research Collective at The University of Melbourne, Australia. She specializes in longitudinal research on young people, documenting their transitions across the dimensions of education, work, well-being, relationships and family life. Professor Wyn’s research is policy-focused, and she is interested in developing new research and policy approaches to chronic patterns of disadvantage amongst youth. Her other areas of interest include gender, social policy and identity.

Helen Cahill is an Emeritus Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She specializes in the use of participatory methods in research, which position young people as active agents. She has led many education, research and community development projects across Australia, Asia-Pacific and Africa, utilizing transformative pedagogies in initiatives addressing social and emotional wellbeing, sexuality education and education for prevention of gender-based violence. 

Hernan Cuervo is a Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and leader of the Youth Research Collective, at The University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests focus on sociology of youth, specifically in relation to transitions to adulthood; rural education and rural young people’s lives; and theory of justice applied to educational and youth issues.   

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Children and Youth Studies

  • Editors: Johanna Wyn, Helen Cahill, Hernan Cuervo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-4451-96-3Due: 15 June 2024

  • Topics: Biotechnology, Gender Studies, Early Childhood Education, Developmental Psychology, Gender Studies

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