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We interview Judith Bessant and Rob Watts about their book, The Politics of Deception: Youth Political Participation in an Age of Global Crises

Our member, Prof. (RMIT University, Australia), and her co-author, Prof. Rob Watts (RMIT University, Australia), talk about their new and open-access book, The Politics of Deception: Youth Political Participation in an Age of Global Crises (Routledge, 2026).

Date added: Saturday, September 26, 2026

An interview with Matthew Benwell, Spyros Spyrou, and Eleni Theodorou about their edited book, Children, Young People and the Future

Our members, (Newcastle University, UK), (European University Cyprus), and (European University Cyprus), talk about their edited book, Children, Young People and the Future (Routledge, 2026).

Date added: Saturday, June 27, 2026

We interview Matías Cordero Arce about his book, Sketches from a Juvenile Justice Centre: Coercion, Relationships, Emancipation

Our member, Dr. (Spain) talks about his new book, Sketches from a Juvenile Justice Centre: Coercion, Relationships, Emancipation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026).

Date added: Saturday, June 20, 2026

We interview Manfred Liebel and Philip Meade about their book, Adultism: A Critical Introduction to Discrimination Against Children

Our member, Prof. (Technical University of Berlin and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany), and his co-author, Philip Meade (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany), talk about their book, Adultism: A Critical Introduction to Discrimination Against Children (Policy Press, 2026).

Date added: Sunday, March 22, 2026

We interview Nina Schneider about her book, Child Labour Opponents and Their Campaigns in the Americas

Our member, Dr. (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany), talks about her book, Child Labour Opponents and Their Campaigns in the Americas: A Global Perspective (1888–1938) (De Gruyter, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, March 8, 2026

An interview Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati about her edited book, Girls' Positionalities at the Intersection of Identity and Violence

Our member, Dr. (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China – the United Kingdom), talks about her edited book, Girls' Positionalities at the Intersection of Identity and Violence (Springer, 2026).

Date added: Sunday, March 15, 2026

We interview Maya Nguyen about her book, Small Revolutionaries: Participation of Children and Youth in the Vietnam War

Our member, Dr. (SOAS, University of London, UK), talks about her book, Small Revolutionaries: Participation of Children and Youth in the Vietnam War (Cornell University Press, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, February 15, 2026

An interview with the editors of Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights: Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children’s Rights

Our members, Dr. and Prof. , along with their co-editor Prof. Siri Gloppen (all from the University of Bergen, Norway), talk about their edited collection, Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights: Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children’s Rights (Policy Press, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, November 23, 2025

An interview with the editors of Treated Like a Child: Age Discrimination and Children's Rights

Our members, Professors (University College Cork, Ireland), (Stockholm University, Sweden), and (Uppsala University, Sweden), talk about their edited collection, Treated Like a Child: Age Discrimination and Children's Rights (Brill, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, October 5, 2025

An interview with the editors of Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene

Our member, Dr. (University of Wrocław, Poland), and her co-editors, Prof. Terri Doughty (Vancouver Island University, Canada) and Dr. Janet Grafton (Vancouver Island University, Canada), talk about their edited collection, Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements (Bloomsbury, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, September 28, 2025

We interview Anastasia Todd about her book, Cripping Girlhood

Our member, Dr. (University of Kentucky, US), talks about her book, Cripping Girlhood (University of Michigan Press, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, September 7, 2025

We interview María Florencia Amigó about her book, Infants, Children, and Youth: Multi-sited Stories of Adversity from South Asia to Australia

Our member, Dr. (the University of Sydney, Australia), talks about her book, Infants, Children, and Youth: Multi-sited Stories of Adversity from South Asia to Australia (Lived Places Publishing, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, August 31, 2025

An interview with Deevia Bhana about her edited collection, Gender and Young People's Digital Sexual Cultures

Our member, Prof. (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), talks about her edited collection, Gender and Young People's Digital Sexual Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, August 24, 2025

We interview Macarena García-González about her book, The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction

Our member, Dr. (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), talks about her new book, The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction (Routledge, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, August 17, 2025

An interview with Susan Groundwater-Smith about her edited collection, Hope, Wisdom and Courage: Teaching and Learning Practices in Today’s Schools and Beyond

Our member, Prof. (the University of Sydney, Australia), talks about her edited collection, Hope, Wisdom and Courage: Teaching and Learning Practices in Today’s Schools and Beyond (Peter Lang, 2025).

Date added: Saturday, August 9, 2025

We interview Heather Montgomery about her book, Familiar Violence: A History of Child Abuse

Our member, Prof. (the Open University, UK), talks about her new book, Familiar Violence: A History of Child Abuse (Polity Press, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, August 3, 2025

An interview with Salvador Santino Regilme about his edited collection, Children's Rights in Crisis

Our member, Dr. (Leiden University, the Netherlands), talk about his edited collection, Children's Rights in crisis: Multidisciplinary, Transnational, and Comparative Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, July 27, 2025

An interview with the editors of Critical Children’s Rights Studies: A Research Companion

Our members, Dr. (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina), Dr. (HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Belgium), Dr. (University of Bristol, UK), and Prof. (University of Antwerp, Belgium), talk about their edited collection, Critical Children’s Rights Studies: A Research Companion (Routledge, 2025).

Date added: Monday, July 14, 2025

An interview with the editors of a new book, Young Children's Perspectives on Teacher Gender

Our member, Dr. (the University of Nottingham, UK), and his co-editors, Dr. David Brody (Orot College of Education, Israel), Prof. Kari Emilsen (Queen Maud University College, Norway), and Dr. Laetitia Coles (the University of Queensland, Australia), talk about their edited collection, Young Children’s Perspectives on Teacher Gender: Contextualizing Gender Stereotypes and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care (Routledge, 2025).

Date added: Tuesday, June 24, 2025

An interview with Marilyn Freeman and Nicola Taylor about their edited book, Children’s Right to Identity, Selfhood and International Family Law

Our members, Prof. (University of Westminster, UK) and Prof. (University of Otago, New Zealand), talk about their edited collection, Children’s Right to Identity, Selfhood and International Family Law (Edward Elgar, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, June 22, 2025

We interview Kei Nishiyama about his book, Children, Democracy and Education: A Deliberative Reconsideration

Our member, Dr. (Kaichi International University, Japan), talks about his new book, Children, Democracy and Education: A Deliberative Reconsideration (SUNY Press, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, June 8, 2025

We interview Elizabeth Dillenburg about her book, Empire's Daughters: Girlhood, Whiteness, and the Colonial Project

Our member, Dr. (Ohio State University at Newark, United States), talks about her new book, Empire's Daughters: Girlhood, Whiteness, and the Colonial Project (Manchester University Press, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, June 1, 2025

We interview Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati about her book, The Status of the Girl Child under International Law

Our member, Dr. (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, China - the United Kingdom), talks about her new book, The Status of the Girl Child under International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, May 18, 2025

An interview with the editors of a new book, Children and Violence: Agency, Experience, and Representation in and beyond Armed Conflict

Our members, Dr. (the University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Dr. (UK), Prof. (the University of Geneva, Switzerland), and Prof. (Washington and Lee University, US), along with their co-editor Prof. Mohamed Kamara (Washington and Lee University, US), talk about their edited collection, Children and Violence: Agency, Experience, and Representation in and beyond Armed Conflict (Routledge, 2025).

Date added: Monday, April 21, 2025

We interview Eliza Ngutuku about her book, Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya: Going Beyond Multi-Dimensionality

Our member, Dr. (the London School of economics and Political science, UK), talks about her new book, Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya: Going Beyond Multi-Dimensionality (Routledge, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, April 13, 2025

We interview Tara Collins about her book, Children’s Rights in Professional Practices with Children And Youth

Our member, Prof. (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada), talks about her new book, Children’s Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth (Edward Elgar, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, April 6, 2025

We interview Jack Hodgson about his book, Young Reds in the Big Apple: The New York YPA, 1923–1934

Our member, Dr. (the University of Roehampton), talks about his new book, Young Reds in the Big Apple: The New York YPA, 1923–1934 (Fordham University Press, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, March 16, 2025

An interview with the editors of the new compilation, International Children's Rights Instruments

Our members, Prof. (the University of Geneva, Switzerland), Dr. (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Dr. (the University of Geneva, Switzerland), and Ms. (the University of Geneva, Switzerland), as well as their co-editors Dr. Katrien Klep (Leiden University, the Netherlands) and Ms. Lucy Opoka (Leiden University, the Netherlands), talk about their co-edited compilation, International Children’s Rights Instruments (Brill, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, March 2, 2025

An interview with Tanu Biswas and Toby Rollo about their co-edited volume, Confronting Adultcentrism

Our members, Dr. (University of Stavanger, Norway) and Dr. (Lakehead University, Canada), talk about their co-edited volume, Confronting Adultcentrism: Childist and Decolonial Interventions in Educational Philosophies and Institutions (a special issue of the journal Childhood & Philosophy, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, February 23, 2025

An interview with Wouter Vandenhole, Gamze Erdem Türkelli, and Sara Lembrechts about the second edition of their Commentary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Our members, (University of Antwerp), (University of Antwerp), and (Ghent University), talk about the second edition of their Commentary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Edward Elgar, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, February 9, 2025

An interview with Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall about their co-edited collection, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z

Our member, Dr. (Newcastle University, UK), and her co-editor, Dr. Maria Cannon (University of Portsmouth, UK), talk about their edited collection, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z (University of London Press, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, February 2, 2025

An interview with Jonathan Todres and Ursula Kilkelly about their edited collection, Children's Rights and Children's Development: An Integrated Approach

Our members, Prof. (Georgia State University, US) and Prof. (University College Cork, Ireland), talk about their edited collection, Children's Rights and Children's Development: An Integrated Approach (NYU Press, 2025).

Date added: Sunday, January 26, 2025

Interview with Patrick Joseph Ryan about his book, Childhood and the Law in Canada – The Family/State Relationship

Our member, Dr. (King's University College at Western University, Canada), talks about his new book, Childhood and the Law in Canada – The Family/State Relationship (LexisNexis, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, December 22, 2024

An interview with Tom Disney and Lucy Grimshaw about their edited collection, Care and Coronavirus: Perspectives on Childhood, Youth and Family

Our member, Dr. , and his co-editor, Dr. Lucy Grimshaw (both from Northumbria University, UK), talk about their edited collection, Care and Coronavirus: Perspectives on Childhood, Youth and Family (Emerald Publishing, 2024).

Date added: Saturday, December 7, 2024

Interview with Hanan Mousa about her book, Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Children’s Literature

Our member, Dr. (Sakhnin College, Israel), talks about her new book, Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Children’s Literature (Routledge, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, November 17, 2024

Interview with Divya Kannan about her book, Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala

Our member, Dr. (Shiv Nadar University, India), talks about her new book, Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala (Cambridge University Press 2024).

Date added: Sunday, October 13, 2024

An interview with Heidi Morrison about her edited collection, Lived Resistance Against the War on Palestinian Children

Our member, Dr. (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, US), talks about her edited collection, Lived Resistance Against the War on Palestinian Children (University of Georgia Press, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, October 6, 2024

An interview with Utsa Mukherjee about his edited collection, Debating Childhood Masculinities: Rethinking the Interplay of Age, Gender and Social Change

Our member, Dr. (Brunel University London, UK), talks about his edited collection, Debating Childhood Masculinities: Rethinking the Interplay of Age, Gender and Social Change (Emerald, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, September 29, 2024

Interview with Afua Twum-Danso Imoh about her book, Turning Global Rights into Local Realities: Realizing Children’s Rights in Ghana’s Pluralistic Society

Our member, Dr. (University of Bristol, UK), talks about her new book, Turning Global Rights into Local Realities: Realizing Children’s Rights in Ghana’s Pluralistic Society (Bristol University Press, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, September 15, 2024

Interview with Nicolás Brando about his book, Childhood in Liberal Theory: Equality, Difference and Children’s Rights

Our member, Dr. (University of Liverpool, UK), talks about his new book, Childhood in Liberal Theory: Equality, Difference and Children’s Rights (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Date added: Monday, September 2, 2024

Interview with Rebecca Adami about her book, Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child

Our member, Dr. (Stockholm University, Sweden), talks about her new book, Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child: The Myth of a Happy Childhood (Routledge, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, August 25, 2024

An interview with Rebekah Willett and Andy (Xinyu) Zhao about their edited collection, Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting

Our member, Prof. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US), and her co-editor, Dr. Andy (Xinyu) Zhao (Deakin University, Australia), talk about their edited collection, Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting: Family Life in Uncertain Times (Routledge, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, August 18, 2024

An interview with Zsuzsa Millei, Nelli Piattoeva, and Iveta Silova, about their edited collection, (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War

Our member, Prof. (Tampere University, Finland), and her co-editors, Dr. Nelli Piattoeva (Tampere University, Finland) and Iveta Silova (Arizona State University, US), talk about their edited collection, (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War (Open Book Publishers, 2024).

Date added: Saturday, June 22, 2024

An interview with Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin, and Patrick O’Keeffe about their edited collection, Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth

Our member, Prof. (RMIT University, Australia), along with her co-editors, Prof. Philippa Collin (Western Sydney University, Australia) and Dr. Patrick O’Keeffe (RMIT University, Australia), talk about their edited collection, Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth (Edward Elgar, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, June 2, 2024

An interview with Pincock et al. about their edited collection, Young People in the Global South: Voice, Agency and Citizenship

Our member, Dr. , along with her co-editors, Dr. Nicola Jones, Prof. Lorraine van Blerk, and Dr. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, talk about their edited collection, Young People in the Global South: Voice, Agency and Citizenship (Routledge, 2024).

Date added: Saturday, May 18, 2024

Interview with Eithne Nightingale about her book, Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day

Our member, Dr. (UK), talks about her new book, Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day (Bloomsbury, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, April 28, 2024

An interview with Anandini Dar and Divya Kannan about their edited collection, Childhood and Youth in India: Engagements with Modernity

Our members, Dr. (BML Munjal University, India) and Dr. (Shiv Nadar University, India), talk about their edited collection, Childhood and Youth in India: Engagements with Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, April 7, 2024

An interview with Julie Garlen and Neil Ramjewan about their edited collection, Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood: Beyond Innocence

Our member, Prof. (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).

Date added: Sunday, March 31, 2024

Interview with Erica Burman about her book, Child as Method: Othering, Interiority and Materialism

Our member, Prof. (University of Manchester, UK), talks about her new book, Child as Method: Othering, Interiority and Materialism (Routledge, 2024).

Date added: Sunday, March 3, 2024

Interview with Miranda Sachs about her book, An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris

Our member, Dr. (Texas State University, US), talks about her new book, An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Date added: Saturday, January 6, 2024

An interview with Victoria Cooper and Mimi Tatlow-Golden about their edited collection, An Introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology

Our member, Dr. (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).

Date added: Sunday, December 17, 2023

Interview with Sarada Balagopalan, John Wall, and Karen Wells about their edited collection, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies

Our members, Prof. (Rutgers University, US) and Prof. (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).

Date added: Sunday, December 10, 2023

Interview with Deevia Bhana, Yuwei Xu, and Vina Adriany about their edited collection, Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education

Our members, Prof. (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) and Dr. (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).

Date added: Saturday, December 2, 2023

Interview with J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents about their edited collection, Children, Childhoods, and Global Politics

Our members, Prof. (McMaster University, Canada) and Dr. (Griffith University, Australia), talk about their edited collection, Children, Childhoods, and Global Politics (Bristol University Press, 2023).

Date added: Saturday, November 25, 2023

Interview with Kelley Fong about her book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services

Our member, Dr. (University of California, Irvine, US), talks about her new book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (Princeton University Press, 2023).

Date added: Saturday, November 18, 2023

Interview with Manfred Liebel about his book, Childhoods of the Global South: Children’s Rights and Resistance

Our member, Dr. (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).

Date added: Sunday, November 12, 2023

Interview with Utsa Mukherjee about his edited collection, Childhoods & Leisure: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues

Our member, Dr. (Brunel University London, UK), talks about his edited collection, Childhoods & Leisure: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

Date added: Sunday, November 5, 2023

Interview with Kristine Alexander and Simon Sleight about their edited collection, A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age

Our members, Dr. (University of Lethbridge, Canada) and Dr. (King's College London, UK), talk about their edited collection, A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Date added: Sunday, October 29, 2023

Interview with Rachel Berman, Patrizia Albanese, and Xiaobei Chen about their edited collection, Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth

Our members, Profs. and (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).

Date added: Sunday, October 22, 2023

Interview with Francesca Meloni about her book, Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality

Our member, Dr. (Kings College London, UK), talks about her new book, Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality (Rutgers University Press, 2023).

Date added: Saturday, October 14, 2023

Interview with Tisdall, Davis, Fry, Konstantoni, Kustatscher, Maternowska, and Weiner about their edited textbook, Critical Childhood Studies: Global Perspectives

Our members, Prof. and Dr. , 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).

Date added: Sunday, October 1, 2023

Interview with Jill Duerr Berrick, Marit Skivenes, and Neil Gilbert about their edited collection, The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems

Our members, Prof. (U.C. Berkeley, US) and Prof. (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).

Date added: Saturday, September 23, 2023

Interview with Alan Dettlaff about his book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System

Our member, Prof. (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).

Date added: Sunday, August 13, 2023

Interview with Elizabeth Faulkner about her book, The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-trafficking Machine

Our member, Dr (Keele University, UK), talks about her new book, The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-trafficking Machine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

Date added: Monday, July 17, 2023

Interview with Freeden Blume Oeur about his co-edited volume, Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism

Our member, Prof. (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).

Date added: Sunday, July 30, 2023

Interview with Felicity Jensz about her co-edited volume, Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Our member, Dr (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).

Date added: Saturday, July 8, 2023

Interview with Felicity Jensz about her book Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910

Our member, Dr (University of Münster, Germany), talks about her book, Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910 (Manchester University Press, 2022).

Date added: Sunday, June 18, 2023

Interview with Franziska Fay about her book Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools

Our member, Dr (Johannes Gutenberg University Main, Germany), talks about her book, Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools (Rutgers University Press, 2021).

Date added: Monday, June 5, 2023

Interview with Catriona Ellis about her book, Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India

Our member, (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).

Date added: Saturday, May 13, 2023

Interview with Jesica Siham Fernández about her book, Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship

Our member, (Santa Clara University, US), talks about her book, Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship (NYU Press, 2021).

Date added: Saturday, May 6, 2023

Interview with Rebecca Adami, Anna Kaldal, and Margareta Aspán about their edited collection, The Rights of the Child: Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges

Our member, , 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).

Date added: Monday, May 1, 2023

Interview with Friederike Kind-Kovács about her book, Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War

Our member, Dr (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).

Date added: Saturday, April 22, 2023

Interview with Peter Kelly, Peter Kraftl, and their co-editors about their two edited collections on young people and the anthropocene

Our members, (Deakin University, Australia) and (University of Birmingham, UK), talk about their two co-edited collections (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022): Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene - co-edited with Rosalyn Black (Deakin University, Australia), Seth Brown (RMIT University, Australia), Anoop Nayak (Newcastle University, UK), and Diego Carbajo Padilla (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain). Young People and Stories of/from the Anthropocene - co-edited with Rosalyn Black (Deakin University, Australia), Deborah MacDonald (York University, Canada), Meave Noonan (RMIT University, Australia), Diego Carbajo Padilla (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain), and Ana Sofia Ribeiro (University of Lisbon, Portugal).

Date added: Saturday, April 15, 2023

Interview with Stephanie Olsen and Heidi Morrison about their anthology, A Cultural History of Youth

Our members, (Tampere University, Finland) and (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, US), talk about their 6-volume anthology, A Cultural History of Youth (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Date added: Sunday, April 9, 2023

Interview with Mariela Neagu about her book, Voices from the Silent Cradles: Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children

Our member, Dr (University of Oxford, UK), talks about her book, Voices from the Silent Cradles: Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children (Policy Press, 2021).

Date added: Saturday, April 1, 2023

Interview with Karl Hanson, Jonathan Josefsson, Sarada Balogopalan, and Bengt Sandin about their edited collection The Politics of Children´s Rights and Representation

Our members, (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and (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).

Date added: Saturday, March 25, 2023

Interview with Peter Hopkins, Matthew Benwell, and their co-editors about their new collection, Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space

Our members, and (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).

Date added: Saturday, March 18, 2023

Interview with John Wall about his edited collection, Exploring Children's Suffrage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ageless Voting

Our member (Rutgers University, US) talks about his edited collection, Exploring Children's Suffrage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ageless Voting (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Date added: Saturday, March 11, 2023

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

Our member (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).

Date added: Saturday, March 4, 2023

Interview with Paul Renfro about his book, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood and the American Carceral State

Our member, (Florida State University, United States) talks about his new book, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Date added: Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Interview with Martin Robb about his book, Men, Masculinities and the Care of Children: Images, Ideas and Identities

Our member, Dr (Open University, UK), talks about his book, Men, Masculinities and the Care of Children: Images, Ideas and Identities (Routledge, 2020).

Date added: Saturday, February 25, 2023

Interview with Georgina Dimopoulos about her book, Decisional Privacy and the Rights of the Child

Our member, Prof. (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) talks about her book, Decisional Privacy and the Rights of the Child (Routledge, 2022).

Date added: Sunday, November 20, 2022

Interview with Victoria Cooper and Naomi Holford about their co-edited collection, Exploring Childhood and Youth

Our members, and (Open University, UK), talk about their edited collection, Exploring Childhood and Youth (Routledge, 2021).

Date added: Sunday, December 4, 2022

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

Our member, Dr (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).

Date added: Saturday, February 18, 2023

Interview with Stuart Tannock about his book, Educating for Radical Social Transformation in the Climate Crisis

Our member, Dr (University College London, UK), talks about his book, Educating for Radical Social Transformation in the Climate Crisis (Springer, 2021).

Date added: Saturday, February 11, 2023

Interview with Karen Malone, Marek Tesar, and Sonja Arndt about their book, Theorising Posthuman Childhood Studies

Our member, Prof. (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).

Date added: Saturday, February 4, 2023

Interview with Rosemary Salomone about her book, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language

Our member, Prof. (St. John's, US), talks about her book, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Date added: Sunday, January 29, 2023

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

Our members (University College London, UK) and (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).

Date added: Monday, January 9, 2023

Interview with Lauren Hammond, Mary Biddulph, Simon Catling, and John H. McKendrick about their edited collection, Children, Education and Geography

Our member, (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).

Date added: Sunday, December 18, 2022

Interview with Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie Huegler, and Delphine Peace about their book, Safeguarding Young People beyond the Family Home

Our member, Prof. (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).

Date added: Sunday, November 27, 2022

Interview with Deevia Bhana about her book, Girls Negotiating Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality

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).

Date added: Sunday, October 23, 2022

Interview with Manfred Liebel about his book, Decolonizing Childhoods: From Exclusion to Dignity

Our member, Prof. Manfred Liebel (Germany), talks about his book, Decolonizing Childhoods: From Exclusion to Dignity (Policy Press, 2020).

Date added: Sunday, October 16, 2022

Interview with Julia Gossard and Holly White about their co-edited special issue on “Double Age in the History of American Childhood and Youth”

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.

Date added: Sunday, October 9, 2022

Interview with Anita Casavantes Bradford about her book, Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States

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).

Date added: Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Interview with Susan Pearson about her book, The Birth Certificate: An American History

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).

Date added: Monday, September 26, 2022

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

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).

Date added: Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Interview with Neil Howard and Samuel Okyere about their co-edited collection, International Child Protection: Towards Politics and Participation

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).

Date added: Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Interview with Walter Kohan about his book – Paulo Freire: A Philosophical Biography – and the role of childhood in politicizing education

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

Date added: Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Interview with Michael Wyness about his co-authored book, Kid Power, Inequalities and Intergenerational Relations

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).

Date added: Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Interview with J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak about their co-edited collection, Childhoods in Peace and Conflict

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).

Date added: Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Interview with Hoko Horii about her book, Child Marriage, Rights and Choice: Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights

Our member, (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).

Date added: Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Interview with Alice Bradbury about her book, Ability, Inequality and Post-Pandemic Schools: Rethinking Contemporary Myths of Meritocracy

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).

Date added: Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Interview with Julie Spray about her book, The Children in Child Health

Our member, (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).

Date added: Monday, June 6, 2022

Interview with Alexandra Cox about her co-edited collection, The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment

Our member, (University of Essex, UK), talks about her new collection (co-edited with Laura Abrams), The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Date added: Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Interview with Mona Paré and Mariëlle Bruning about their co-edited collection, Children’s Access to Justice: A Critical Assessment

Our members, (University of Ottawa, Canada) and (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).

Date added: Tuesday, May 24, 2022

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