Handbook of Children and Youth Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Thinking About Children and Youth

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Thinking About Childhood and Youth

      • Johanna Wyn

      Pages 3-20

   3. Deconstructing Discourses to Rupture Fairytales of the “Ideal” Childhood

      • Kylie Smith

      Pages 21-33

   4. The Promises of Empowered Girls

      • Nancy Lesko, Mary Ann Chacko, Shenila S. Khoja-Moolji

      Pages 35-48

   5. Thinking About Children: How Does It Influence Policy and Practice?

      • Nicola Taylor, Anne B. Smith

      Pages 49-62

   6. The Politics of Non-belonging in the Developing World

      • David Everatt

      Pages 63-78

   7. Ways of Thinking About Young People in Participatory Interview Research

      • Rob Pattman

      Pages 79-92

3. Well-Being

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Approaches to Understanding Youth Well-Being

      • Helen Cahill

      Pages 95-113

   3. Protecting and Promoting Young People’s Social and Emotional Health in Online and Offline Contexts

      • Donna Cross, Amy Barnes

      Pages 115-126

   4. Reconsidering Youth Well-Being as Fluid and Relational: A Dynamic Process at the Intersection of Their Physical and Social Geographies

      • Lisa Wexler, Kristen Ali Eglinton

      Pages 127-137

   5. Responding Effectively to Support the Mental Health and Well-Being of Young People

      • Debra Rickwood

      Pages 139-154

   6. Young People, Pleasure, and the Normalization of Pornography: Sexual Health and Well-Being in a Time of Proliferation?

      • Lyn Harrison, Debbie Ollis

      Pages 155-167

   7. Who’s Learning or Whose Learning? Critical Perspectives on the Idea Youth-Led Policy-Making Related to Gender-Based Violence in a South African Classroom

      • Claudia Mitchell

      Pages 169-181

4. Bodies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Bodies: Corporeality and Embodiment in Childhood and Youth Studies

      • Julia Coffey, Juliet Watson

      Pages 185-200

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

      • Lauren Graham, Memory Mphaphuli

      Pages 201-215

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

      • Mary Jane Kehily

      Pages 217-228

   5. Girls’ Embodied Experiences of Media Images

      • Sue Jackson

      Pages 229-242

This handbook gives a new scientific perspective to youth and childhood studies as multi scientific and interdisciplinary subjects which as such have not yet found their own framing in a particular discipline. It provides theoretical and methodological key debates and issues that develop and add an understanding of childhood and youth research discipline from a broader perspective. The Handbook on Children and Youth Studies draws on current thinking, but also challenges theoretical and conceptual orthodoxies in the field, drawing on interdisciplinary thinking and critical perspectives. It focuses on childhood and youth to address the emerging consensus that the boundaries between childhood, youth and adulthood are blurred. The view that defining youth and childhood largely in terms of problem topics is out dated. Instead, the handbook focuses on 13 themes that are open to international perspectives and to different conceptual approaches. Each theme is edited by a pair of field editors, thereby capturing a plurality of views. The 13 themes as a starting point are globally timely and they need scientific debates on the boundaries between childhoods, youth and adulthood. This handbook will meet the needs of childhood and youth researchers and the academics in the field. It recognizes the changing social context of the lives of children and young people, while developing theoretical frameworks and discussing about the core substantive issues of Children and Youth Studies.

• Childhood, youth and young adulthood
• Digital communications and youth
• Juvenile justice
• Sexualities Gender and youth
• Social Justice and children
• Youth activism
• Youth development
• citizenship and youth
• identity and youth
• learning and youth
• place and youth
• structural disadvantage and youth
• well-being and youth
• youth and spirituality
• youth labour

• Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  Johanna Wyn, Helen Cahill

Professor Johanna Wyn is director of the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne, in Australia. She specializes in longitudinal research on young people, documenting their transitions across the dimensions of education, work, well-being, relationships and family life. Prof. 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.

Associate Professor Helen Cahill is the deputy director of the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne, in Australia. She teaches in the Master of Education and the Master of Teaching programs, coordinating subjects which address youth well-being. Associate Prof. Cahill specializes in the use of participatory methods in research, education and community development projects and has a special interest in the use of drama as a tool in participatory research and transformative education and in projects which position young people as active agents.