Author(s): Jens Qvortrup
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 336
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
1 Varieties of Childhood......Page 14
2 Complex Interconnections: the Global and the Local in Children’s Minds and Everyday Worlds......Page 34
3 Mediatized Childhoods: Discourses, Dilemmas and Directions......Page 52
4 Opting in to (and out of) Childhood: Young People, Sex and the Media......Page 72
5 Is it Time to Rethink Media Panics?......Page 91
6 The Terrors of Hypervigilance: Security and the Compromised Spaces of Contemporary Childhood......Page 112
7 Childhood and Transgression......Page 128
8 Prisoners of Childhood: Orphans and Economic Dependency......Page 141
9 ‘In Defence of Childhood’: Against the Neo-Liberal Assault on Social Life......Page 160
10 The Wealth of Children: Reconsidering the Child Labour Debate......Page 180
11 The Priceless Child Revisited......Page 197
12 Work, Welfare and Generational Order: Towards a Political Economy of Childhood......Page 214
13 Social Justice and the Rights of Children......Page 234
14 Collective Action and Agency in Young Children’s Peer Cultures......Page 244
15 Life Times: Children’s Perspectives on Age, Agency and Memory across the Life Course......Page 261
16 Structuration of Childhood: an Essay on the Structuring of Childhood and Anticipatory Socialization......Page 280
C......Page 296
E......Page 299
G......Page 300
K......Page 301
M......Page 302
O......Page 303
S......Page 304
T......Page 305
V......Page 306
Z......Page 307
