An interview with Anandini Dar and Divya Kannan about their edited collection, Childhood and Youth in India: Engagements with Modernity 7 April 2024
Our members, Dr. Anandini Dar (BML Munjal University, India) and Dr. Divya Kannan (Shiv Nadar University, India), talk about their edited collection, Childhood and Youth in India: Engagements with Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
An interview with Julie Garlen and Neil Ramjewan about their edited collection, Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood: Beyond Innocence 31 March 2024
Our member, Prof. Julie Garlen (Carleton University, Canada), and her co-editor, Neil Ramjewan (University of Toronto, Canada), talk about their edited collection, Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood: Beyond Innocence (Rowan & Littlefield, 2023).
Interview with Erica Burman about her book, Child as Method: Othering, Interiority and Materialism 3 March 2024
Our member, Prof. Erica Burman (University of Manchester, UK), talks about her new book, Child as Method: Othering, Interiority and Materialism (Routledge, 2024).
Interview with Miranda Sachs about her book, An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris 6 January 2024
Our member, Dr. Miranda Sachs (Texas State University, US), talks about her new book, An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris (Oxford University Press, 2023).
An interview with Victoria Cooper and Mimi Tatlow-Golden about their edited collection, An Introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology 17 December 2023
Our member, Dr. Victoria Cooper (Open University, UK), and her co-editor, Dr. Mimi Tatlow-Golden (both from the Open University, UK), talk about their edited collection, An Introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology (Routledge, 2023).
Interview with Sarada Balagopalan, John Wall, and Karen Wells about their edited collection, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies 10 December 2023
Our members, Prof. John Wall (Rutgers University, US) and Prof. Karen Wells (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), along with their co-editor Prof. Sarada Balagopalan (Rutgers University, US), talk about their edited collection, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Interview with Deevia Bhana, Yuwei Xu, and Vina Adriany about their edited collection, Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education 2 December 2023
Our members, Prof. Deevia Bhana (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) and Dr. Yuwei Xu (University of Nottingham, U.K.), as well as their co-editor Prof. Vina Adriany (Universitas Pendidikan, Indonesia), talk about their edited collection, Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts (Routledge, 2023).
Interview with J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents about their edited collection, Children, Childhoods, and Global Politics 25 November 2023
Our members, Prof. J. Marshall Beier (McMaster University, Canada) and Dr. Helen Berents (Griffith University, Australia), talk about their edited collection, Children, Childhoods, and Global Politics (Bristol University Press, 2023).
Interview with Kelley Fong about her book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services 18 November 2023
Our member, Dr. Kelley Fong (University of California, Irvine, US), talks about her new book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (Princeton University Press, 2023).
Interview with Manfred Liebel about his book, Childhoods of the Global South: Children’s Rights and Resistance 12 November 2023
Our member, Dr. Manfred Liebel (Germany), talks about his new book (written with Rebecca Budde, Urszula Markowska-Manista, and Philip Meade), Childhoods of the Global South: Children’s Rights and Resistance (Policy Press, 2023).
Interview with Utsa Mukherjee about his edited collection, Childhoods & Leisure: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues 5 November 2023
Our member, Dr. Utsa Mukherjee (Brunel University London, UK), talks about his edited collection, Childhoods & Leisure: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Interview with Kristine Alexander and Simon Sleight about their edited collection, A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age 29 October 2023
Our members, Dr. Kristine Alexander (University of Lethbridge, Canada) and Dr. Simon Sleight (King's College London, UK), talk about their edited collection, A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Interview with Rachel Berman, Patrizia Albanese, and Xiaobei Chen about their edited collection, Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth 22 October 2023
Our members, Profs. Rachel Berman and Patrizia Albanese (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada), along with their co-editor Prof. Xiaobei Chen (Carleton University, Canada), talk about their new collection, Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth (Emerald, 2023).
Interview with Francesca Meloni about her book, Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality 14 October 2023
Our member, Dr. Francesca Meloni (Kings College London, UK), talks about her new book, Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality (Rutgers University Press, 2023).
Interview with Tisdall, Davis, Fry, Konstantoni, Kustatscher, Maternowska, and Weiner about their edited textbook, Critical Childhood Studies: Global Perspectives 1 October 2023
Our members, Prof. Kay Tisdall and Dr. Marlies Kustatscher, talk about their new textbook, co-edited with Prof. Debi Fry, Dr. Kristina Konstantoni, Prof. Kati Maternowska, Ms. Laura Weiner (all from the University of Edinburgh, UK), and Prof. John Davis (University of Strathclyde, UK), Critical Childhood Studies: Global Perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).
Interview with Jill Duerr Berrick, Marit Skivenes, and Neil Gilbert about their edited collection, The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems 23 September 2023
Our members, Prof. Jill Duerr Berrick (U.C. Berkeley, US) and Prof. Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen, Norway), talk about their new volume, co-edited with Prof. Neil Gilbert (U.C. Berkeley, US), The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Interview with Alan Dettlaff about his book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System 13 August 2023
Our member, Prof. Alan Dettlaff (University of Houston, US), talks about his new book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Interview with Freeden Blume Oeur about his co-edited volume, Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism 30 July 2023
Our member, Prof. Freeden Blume Oeur (Tufts University, US), talks about his collection, co-edited with Prof. C. J. Pascoe (University of Oregon, US), Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism (New York University Press, 2023).
Interview with Elizabeth Faulkner about her book, The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-trafficking Machine 17 July 2023
Our member, Dr Elizabeth Faulkner (Keele University, UK), talks about her new book, The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-trafficking Machine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Interview with Felicity Jensz about her co-edited volume, Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 8 July 2023
Our member, Dr Felicity Jensz (University of Münster, Germany), talks about her collection, co-edited with Daniel Gerster (Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg, Germany), Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Interview with Felicity Jensz about her book Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910 18 June 2023
Our member, Dr Felicity Jensz (University of Münster, Germany), talks about her book, Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910 (Manchester University Press, 2022).
Interview with Franziska Fay about her book Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools 5 June 2023
Our member, Dr Franziska Fay (Johannes Gutenberg University Main, Germany), talks about her book, Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools (Rutgers University Press, 2021).
Interview with Catriona Ellis about her book, Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India 13 May 2023
Our member, Dr Catriona Ellis (University of Strathclyde, UK), talks about her new book, Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Interview with Jesica Siham Fernández about her book, Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship 6 May 2023
Our member, Dr Jesica Siham Fernández (Santa Clara University, US), talks about her book, Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship (NYU Press, 2021).
Interview with Rebecca Adami, Anna Kaldal, and Margareta Aspán about their edited collection, The Rights of the Child: Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges 1 May 2023
Our member, Rebecca Adami, along with her co-editors Anna Kaldal and Margareta Aspán (all at Stockholm University, Sweden), talk about their edited collection, The Rights of the Child: Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges (Brill, 2023).
Interview with Friederike Kind-Kovács about her book, Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War 22 April 2023
Our member, Dr Friederike Kind-Kovács (Dresden University of Technology, Germany), talks about her book, Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War (Indiana University Press, 2022).
Interview with Peter Kelly, Peter Kraftl, and their co-editors about their two edited collections on young people and the anthropocene 15 April 2023
Our members, Peter Kelly (Deakin University, Australia) and Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham, UK), talk about their two co-edited collections (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022):
Interview with Stephanie Olsen and Heidi Morrison about their anthology, A Cultural History of Youth 9 April 2023
Our members, Stephanie Olsen (Tampere University, Finland) and Heidi Morrison (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, US), talk about their 6-volume anthology, A Cultural History of Youth (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Interview with Mariela Neagu about her book, Voices from the Silent Cradles: Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children 1 April 2023
Our member, Dr Mariela Neagu (University of Oxford, UK), talks about her book, Voices from the Silent Cradles: Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children (Policy Press, 2021).
Interview with Karl Hanson, Jonathan Josefsson, Sarada Balogopalan, and Bengt Sandin about their edited collection The Politics of Children´s Rights and Representation 25 March 2023
Our members, Karl Hanson (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Jonathan Josefsson (Linköping University, Sweden), as well as their co-editors Sarada Balogopalan (Rutgers University, US) and Bengt Sandin (Linköping University, Sweden), talk about their edited collection The Politics of Children´s Rights and Representation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) (open access).
Interview with Peter Hopkins, Matthew Benwell, and their co-editors about their new collection, Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space 18 March 2023
Our members, Peter Hopkins and Matthew Benwell (Newcastle University, UK), and their co-editors, Mattias De Backer (KU Leuven, Belgium), Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht University, Netherlands), Robin Finlay (Newcastle University, UK), Elisabeth Kirndörfer (University of Bonn, Germany), Mieke Kox (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), and Kathrin Hörschelmann (University of Bonn, Germany), talk about their new collection, Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space (Bristol University Press, 2023).
Interview with John Wall about his edited collection, Exploring Children's Suffrage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ageless Voting 11 March 2023
Our member John Wall (Rutgers University, US) talks about his edited collection, Exploring Children's Suffrage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ageless Voting (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Interview with Spyros Spyrou et al. about their edited collection, Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future? Exploring Coastal Societies, Childhood(s) and Local Knowledge in Times of Global Transition 4 March 2023
Our member Spyros Spyrou (European University Cyprus) and his co-editors, Anne Trine Kjørholt (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Sharon Bessell (Australian National University), Dympna Devine (University College Dublin, Ireland), and Firouz Gaini (University of the Faroe Islands), talk about their edited collection, Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future? Exploring Coastal Societies, Childhood(s) and Local Knowledge in Times of Global Transition (MARE Publication Series, Volume 27, Springer Nature, 2022).
Interview with Martin Robb about his book, Men, Masculinities and the Care of Children: Images, Ideas and Identities 25 February 2023
Our member, Dr Martin Robb (Open University, UK), talks about his book, Men, Masculinities and the Care of Children: Images, Ideas and Identities (Routledge, 2020).
Interview with Utsa Mukherjee about his book, Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure: Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families 18 February 2023
Our member, Dr Utsa Mukherjee (Brunel University London, UK), talks about his new book, Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure: Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families (Bristol University Press, 2023).
Interview with Stuart Tannock about his book, Educating for Radical Social Transformation in the Climate Crisis 11 February 2023
Our member, Dr Stuart Tannock (University College London, UK), talks about his book, Educating for Radical Social Transformation in the Climate Crisis (Springer, 2021).
Interview with Karen Malone, Marek Tesar, and Sonja Arndt about their book, Theorising Posthuman Childhood Studies 4 February 2023
Our member, Prof. Marek Tesar (Auckland, New Zealand), along with his co-authors Prof. Karen Malone (Swinburne, Australia) and Dr. Sonja Arndt (Melbourne, Australia), talk about their book, Theorising Posthuman Childhood Studies (Springer, 2020).
Interview with Rosemary Salomone about her book, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language 29 January 2023
Our member, Prof. Rosemary Salomone (St. John's, US), talks about her book, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Interview with Rachel Rosen, Elaine Chase, Sarah Crafter, Valentina Glockner, and Sayani Mitra about their edited collection, Crisis for Whom? Critical Global Perspectives on Childhood, Care, and Migration 9 January 2023
Our members Rachel Rosen (University College London, UK) and Sarah Crafter (Open University, UK), and their co-editors Elaine Chase (Oxford, UK), Valentina Glockner (University of Miami, US), and Sayani Mitra (Liverpool, UK), talk about their edited collection, Crisis for Whom? Critical Global Perspectives on Childhood, Care, and Migration // ¿Crisis para quién? Perspectivas críticas internacionales sobre la infancia, el cuidado y la migración (UCL Press, 2023).
Interview with Lauren Hammond, Mary Biddulph, Simon Catling, and John H. McKendrick about their edited collection, Children, Education and Geography 18 December 2022
Our member, Lauren Hammond (University of Edinburgh, UK), and her co-editors Mary Biddulph (formerly University of Nottingham, UK), Simon Catling (Oxford Brookes University, UK), and John H. McKendrick (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK), talk about their edited collection, Children, Education and Geography: Rethinking Intersections (Routledge, 2022).
Interview with Victoria Cooper and Naomi Holford about their co-edited collection, Exploring Childhood and Youth 4 December 2022
Our members, Victoria Cooper and Naomi Holford (Open University, UK), talk about their edited collection, Exploring Childhood and Youth (Routledge, 2021).
Interview with Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie Huegler, and Delphine Peace about their book, Safeguarding Young People beyond the Family Home 27 November 2022
Our member, Prof. Michelle Lefevre (University of Sussex, UK), and her co-authors, Prof. Carlene Firmin (Durham University, UK), Dr. Nathalie Huegler (University of Sussex, UK), and Delphine Peace (Durham University, UK), talk about their new book, Safeguarding Young People beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risks and Harms (Policy Press, 2022).
Interview with Georgina Dimopoulos about her book, Decisional Privacy and the Rights of the Child 20 November 2022
Our member, Prof. Georgina Dimopoulos (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) talks about her book, Decisional Privacy and the Rights of the Child (Routledge, 2022).
Interview with Deevia Bhana about her book, Girls Negotiating Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality 23 October 2022
Our member, Prof. Deevia Bhana (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), talks about her new book, Girls Negotiating Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality (Routledge, 2022).
Interview with Manfred Liebel about his book, Decolonizing Childhoods: From Exclusion to Dignity 16 October 2022
Our member, Prof. Manfred Liebel (Germany), talks about his book, Decolonizing Childhoods: From Exclusion to Dignity (Policy Press, 2020).
Interview with Julia Gossard and Holly White about their co-edited special issue on “Double Age in the History of American Childhood and Youth” 9 October 2022
Our members, Julia Gossard (Utah State University, US) and Holly White (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, US), talk about their co-edited special issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.
Interview with Anita Casavantes Bradford about her book, Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States 4 October 2022
Our member, Prof. Anita Casavantes Bradford (University of California Irvine, US), talks about her new book, Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2021).
Interview with Susan Pearson about her book, The Birth Certificate: An American History 26 September 2022
Our member, Prof. Susan Pearson (Northwestern University, US), talks about her new book, The Birth Certificate: An American History (University of North Carolina Press, 2021).
Interview with Louise Forde, Nessa Lynch, and Yannick van den Brink about their co-edited collection, Serious Offending by Children: Principles, Practice and Global Perspectives 23 August 2022
Our member, Louise Forde (Brunel, UK), and her co-editors, Nessa Lynch (Victoria University of Wellington, Australia) and Yannick van den Brink (Leiden University, Netherlands), talk about their edited collection, Serious Offending by Children: Principles, Practice and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2022).
Interview with Neil Howard and Samuel Okyere about their co-edited collection, International Child Protection: Towards Politics and Participation 26 July 2022
Our members, Neil Howard (University of Bath, United Kingdom) and Samuel Okyere (University of Bristol, United Kingdom), talk about their co-edited collection International Child Protection: Towards Politics and Participation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Interview with Walter Kohan about his book – Paulo Freire: A Philosophical Biography – and the role of childhood in politicizing education 19 July 2022
Our member, Professor Walter Kohan (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil) talks about his book, Paulo Freire: A Philosophical Biography (Bloomsbury, 2021), with a focus on the role of childhood in politicizing education
Interview with Michael Wyness about his co-authored book, Kid Power, Inequalities and Intergenerational Relations 5 July 2022
Our member, Dr Michael Wyness (University of Warwick, UK) talks about his new book, co-authored with Clara Rübner Jørgensen (University of Birmingham, UK), Kid Power, Inequalities and Intergenerational Relations (Anthem Press, 2021).
Interview with J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak about their co-edited collection, Childhoods in Peace and Conflict 28 June 2022
Our members, J. Marshall Beier (McMaster University, Canada) and Jana Tabak(State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), talk about their co-edited collection, Childhoods in Peace and Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Interview with Hoko Horii about her book, Child Marriage, Rights and Choice: Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights 21 June 2022
Our member, Dr Hoko Horii (Leiden University, the Netherlands; Kobe University, Japan) talks about her new book, Child Marriage, Rights and Choice: Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights (Routledge, 2021).
Interview with Alice Bradbury about her book, Ability, Inequality and Post-Pandemic Schools: Rethinking Contemporary Myths of Meritocracy 14 June 2022
Our member, Dr Alice Bradbury (UCL Institute of Education, UK), talks about her new book, Ability, Inequality and Post-Pandemic Schools: Rethinking Contemporary Myths of Meritocracy (Policy Press, 2021).
Interview with Julie Spray about her book, The Children in Child Health 6 June 2022
Our member, Dr Julie Spray (University of Auckland, New Zealand) talks about her new book, The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand (Rutgers University Press, 2020).
Interview with Alexandra Cox about her co-edited collection, The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment 31 May 2022
Our member, Alexandra Cox (University of Essex, UK), talks about her new collection (co-edited with Laura Abrams), The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Interview with Mona Paré and Mariëlle Bruning about their co-edited collection, Children’s Access to Justice: A Critical Assessment 24 May 2022
Our members, Mona Paré (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Mariëlle Bruning (Leiden University, the Netherlands), talk about their collection (edited with Thierry Moreau and Caroline Siffrein-Blanc), Children’s Access to Justice: A Critical Assessment (Intersentia, 2022).
Interview with Paul Renfro about his book, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood and the American Carceral State 11 May 2022
Our member, Paul Renfro (Florida State University, United States) talks about his new book, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Interview with Simon Flacks about his book, Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood 8 May 2022
Our member, Dr Simon Flacks (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) talks about his new book, Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood (Routledge, 2021).
Interview with Lisamarie Deblasio about her book, Adoption and Law 19 April 2022
Our member, Dr Lisamarie Deblasio (Plymouth, UK) talks about her new book, Adoption and Law: The Unique Personal Experiences of Birth Mothers in Adoption Proceedings (Routledge, 2021).
Interview with Samantha Davey about her book, A Failure of Proportion 18 April 2022
Our member, Dr Samantha Davey (Essex, UK) talks about her book, A Failure of Proportion: Non-Consensual Adoption in England and Wales (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Interview with Peter Kraftl about his book, After Childhood 10 April 2022
Our member, Prof Peter Kraftl (Birmingham, UK) talks about his book, After Childhood: Re-thinking Environment, Materiality and Media in Children's Lives (Routlege, 2020).
Interview with Jacob Breslow about his book, Ambivalent Childhoods 4 April 2022
Our member, Dr Jacob Breslow (LSE, UK) talks about his new book, Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).
Interview with Judith Bessant about her book, Making-Up People: Youth, Truth and Politics 16 March 2022
Our member, Prof Judith Bessant (RMIT University, Australia) talks about her new book, Making-Up People: Youth, Truth and Politics (Routledge, 2021).
Call for Papers: Childhood and Migration Blog Series 12 December 2023
Jointly published by CLPN (the Childhood, Law & Policy Network) and CCYSC (the Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective).
Edited by our members Adrienne Lee Atterberry (Union College, US) and Karina Ruiz (University of California Santa Cruz, US).
Children and work - a special blog feature 5 October 2022
Over the past three weeks, we have published pieces by nine of our members - Neil Howard, Jessica Taft, Rebecca Raby, Elizabeth Dillenburg, Sam Okyere, Omri Grinberg, Peter Kelly, María Florencia Amigó, and Edward van Daalen - on a broad range of issues concerning children and work.
Edward van Daalen on the problems with the campaign to abolish child labour by 2025 20 September 2022
Non-hazardous work can be beneficial for children. But even hazardous child labour cannot be eliminated overnight; instead, it requires creative and localised approaches that take children’s own opinions seriously. The problem, Edward van Daalen argues, is that such pragmatism and innovation are excluded by the dominant public discourse on children’s work.
María Florencia Amigó et al. investigate the impact of climate change on child labour in Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Nepal, and Peru 18 September 2022
The climate crisis has had evident detrimental effects on agricultural production worldwide. Available data does not suggest that climatic shocks will generally lead to either an increase or a decrease in child labour. However, where such events do affect child labour, they are more likely to increase its incidence rather than decrease it.
Peter Kelly outlines new ways to think about young people and the future of work 15 September 2022
The ‘problem’ of young people’s transitions from school to work has been a significant feature of youth policy since the early 1980s, especially in Australia and many other developed economies. In a global economy structured by logics of neo-liberal capitalism, what is the future of work for young people?
Omri Grinberg sheds light on Israel’s reframing of Palestinian child labor 13 September 2022
Israeli state officials have gradually reframed Palestinian child labor as an issue of human trafficking and slavery disconnected from Israel’s military occupation. What does this rhetorical shift entail, and what can it teach us about Israel’s evolving decontextualization and disavowal of its violence?
Sam Okyere discusses what Ghanaian children say about their work – and how policy responses to child labour should change 11 September 2022
There is a wide gap between child protection policies and the lived experiences of working children. Policy makers must listen to these children, address poverty and socioeconomic constraints, and recognize that child labour varies considerably depending on the person and context.
Elizabeth Dillenburg highlights continuities between past and present debates on child labor in the United States 8 September 2022
Faced with an acute labor shortage, US states and employers recently pushed for younger workers to be hired. These recent debates echo themes that emerged in discussions about child labor throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Rebecca Raby investigates what Canadian teenagers think about themselves and their peers participating in early paid work 6 September 2022
Discussions about children’s work often focus on the Global South. Yet, research in Canada offers valuable insights into how young people view and experience early paid work; how these views and experiences are shaped by age, class, race, and gender; and how they are embedded in specific contexts.
Jessica Taft examines Peruvian working children’s views on child work – as well as their broader political vision 5 September 2022
Working children’s movements around the world have tried to gain a voice in the international policy conversation, but they have not been adequately listened to. Ethnographic research with the Peruvian movement of working children sheds important light on what they say and do regarding work, rights, the economy, and politics
Neil Howard argues that a better understanding of ‘harm’ within children’s work leads us away from the attempt to abolish child labour and towards a focus on child wellbeing 4 September 2022
Calls to eliminate child labour fail to listen to working children, even though removing children from putatively ‘harmful work’ can cause further harm. How, then, can harm be better understood, contextualised, and addressed?
Children and the climate crisis - a special blog feature 6 May 2022
Over the past two weeks, we have published pieces by seven of our members - Aoife Daly, Spyros Spyrou, Daniella Bendo, Noam Peleg, Tanu Biswas, Peter Kraftl, and Rongedzayi Fambasayi - on a broad range of issues concerning children and the climate crisis.
Rongedzayi Fambasayi argues that child rights are a blind spot of South Africa's High Court ruling on air pollution 4 May 2022
In a recent judgment on deadly air pollution, South Africa’s High Court described the applicants' invocation of child rights as 'opportunistic and misleading.' Could this indicate that child rights are, in fact, a blind spot of the Court?
Peter Kraftl discusses how schoolboys whose behavior was deemed 'challenging' can also challenge the climate crisis 3 May 2022
Experimental educational activities on the climate change, delivered to non-White schoolboys who were labelled as 'challenging,' raise questions about 'challenging' behaviours and the climate crisis. Who is able to utter or perform a challenge to the climate crisis, and how?
Tanu Biswas Discusses 'Decolonial Childism': Nurturing Diversity for Intergenerational Sustainability 28 April 2022
The aims of education and economy need to be aligned with the larger aim of sustaining life on this planet. Expanding the scope of education - as an intergenerational relationship that gives children access to a diversity of knowledge, choices, and resources - is a direction worth considering.
Noam Peleg Explains Why Australia's Recent Climate Change Court Ruling Is a Setback for Children's Rights 27 April 2022
Australia's Federal Court recently ruled that the country's Environment Minister has no duty of care for future generations when deciding whether to approve the expansion of coal mines. The case was originally brought by eight teenagers and a nun legally acting on their behalf. The judgment leaves children with limited recourse: they can't vote, they are ignored by politicians, and now the Court refuses to scrutinise decisions that primarily affect them.
Bendo, Goodwin De Faria, and Mitchell write on Young Climate Activists During the Covid-19 Pandemic 26 April 2022
Since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, young climate activists have found new ways to bring attention to climate issues. Among other things, they have developed an online toolkit that both educates adults and facilitates the participation of more children in the social movement.
Spyros Spyrou writes on Ethnographic Explorations with Young Climate Activists in Cyprus 25 April 2022
Young climate activists in Cyprus challenge adult notions of the pandemic as exceptional, by drawing attention to the everydayness and continuity of the climate crisis. At the same time, they retain hope, rooted in their willingness and capacity to act collectively to bring about change.
Aoife Daly writes on Access to Justice for Children and Youth in the Climate Crisis 24 April 2022
Children and youth have been driving activism and litigation to combat climate change. But how accessible is climate justice for them?
Watch our book discussion: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion 10 April 2024
Our members, Prof. Anita Casavantes Bradford (University of California Irvine, US) and Dr. Francesca Meloni (King’s College London, UK), discussed Anita's book, Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Hedi Viterbo (Queen Mary University of London, UK).
Watch our webinar on "Children's Right to Vote: Should the Voting Age Be Lowered/Abolished?" 11 October 2022
On 10 November, 2022, we co-hosted a webinar with Prof John Wall and Dr Christine Huebner on children's right to vote
Erica Burman's talk: Putting "Child as Method" to Work? 26 April 2022
Prof Erica Burman to give the annual lecture of Queen Mary University's Centre for Childhood Cultures on 19 May, 2022.
Watch Hedi Viterbo's talk: Problematising Children’s Rights – Insights from Israel/Palestine 3 April 2022
Dr Hedi Viterbo (CLPN's Director) recently gave a talk at Oxford University, titled 'Problematising Children’s Rights – Insights from Israel/Palestine.' The talk was based on his similarly titled book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Moderator: our member, Chelsea Wallis.
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