Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development by Abebe, Tatek; Dar, Anandini; Wells, Karen;

Short description:

This handbook explores how global development agendas of economic development influence children’s lives. From established scholars and early career researchers, this book will be an essential reference for policymakers, practitioners, researchers and students across childhood studies, education, geography, sociology, and global development.

Long description:

This Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and economic development influence children’s lives. It demonstrates that children are not only the frequent targets or objects of development but that they also shape and influence processes of development and social change in diverse and meaningful ways.

The handbook makes the case for the importance of placing children at the heart of development
debates, examining the complex social, historical, cultural, economic, epidemiological, ecological, geopolitical, and institutional processes transforming what it means to be young in the world today. Through reports on field research as well as a critical engagement with theories in development studies and childhood studies, contributions unravel the structural connections of global development processes as they relate to children’s life worlds. They tease out and tease apart how global developmental processes influence children’s lives, how children inform and shape development, why it is important to keep children at the centre of debates linked to development and socio- cultural change, and ways of engaging children in development research, policies and practices.

Showcasing research from both established scholars and early career researchers, and with particular prominence given to the work of authors from the global south, this handbook will be an essential reference for policymakers, practitioners, and for researchers and students across childhood studies, education, geography, sociology, and international development.

Table of Contents:

Childhood Studies and Global Development - Introduction  Section 1: Researching Childhood and Development  1. Section Introduction  2. The Dispersed Child: Indian Children and their Archival Presence in Missionary Collections  3. Development Research with Children from A Decolonial Perspective: Experimentation with Knowledge and Learning to Think Otherwise  4. Participatory Knowledge Co-Generation with Children: Ethics and Politics of Engagement  5. Ethics and Consent in Research with Children and Young People in Global Development  6. Visual Research  7. Using a Mixed Methods Approach to Identify Pathways to Adolescent Girl Empowerment  Section 2: Political activism and development  8. Section Introduction  9. Political Socialization in Militarized State: Youth in Armed Conflict of Indian Administered Kashmir  10. New Readings for Palestinian Children and Youth’s Experiences During the British Mandate: the Birth of Children’s Political Agency  11. “Capitalism Doesn’t Empower Me”: Latin American Children’s Activism and Critiques of Neoliberal Development  12. Children as Environmental Actors: a Generational Perspective on Climate Activism in an Overheated World  13. Colombian Child-Soldiers and Their Status as Political Actors  Section 3: Migration, Children, and Development  14. Section Introduction  15. Exclusionary Locales of Migration and Education in India: Situating Heterogeneous Manifestations of NGO Schooling  16. Children’s health and well-being in the context of parental migration: the case of Southeast Asia  17. The Politics of Unaccompanied Child Migration at the U.S./Mexico Border  18. Transnational Migration and Childhood, Social Reproduction and Economic Crisis  Section 4: Health, Gender Norms, and Development  19. Section Introduction  20. Sexual Violence Against Children  21. Navigating Social and Gender Norms in Early Childhood - a Case Study in a Flood-Prone Area in Amazonian Peru  22. Influence of Policies on Early Adolescent's Sexual and Reproductive Health  23. Sexuality, Bodies and Desire through the Schooling of Girls  24. Children and Adolescents Living with and Affected by HIV in African Countries: Converging Crises, Vulnerability, and Resilience  Section 5: Governing Childhoods: Law and Rights  25. Section Introduction  26. Child Rights Governance in International Development  27. The Politics of Child Rights: Protecting the “World-Child”, Governing the Future   28. The Global Politics of Child Labour: A Critical Analysis  29. Disability and Education Under Conflict and Crisis in the Global South  30. Explaining Variation in Compliance with Anti-FGM and Child Marriage Law in Burkina Faso  31. A Critical Reflection on Ghana’s Childhood, Child Rights and Child Labour Governance Modalities: A Case Study of Abolitionist Discourses and Practices on Children’s Work in the Fishing Sector  Section 6: Childhood and Social Reproduction  32. Section Introduction  33. Gendered Navigations of Space, Work and Education in Young Adivasi Lives in India  34. ‘Skilling’ Educated Youth for Insecure Employment in the Informal Economy  35. Mothers’ Reflections on Generational Changes in Childhood in a Mayan Town: Globalisation Challenges to Convivencia/Togetherness  36. Children as Agents of Change to Reach the Water Security Sustainable Development Goal in the Climate Crisis  37. Early Childhood Education in Turkana Pastoralist Communities of Kenya  38. From Post-Development to Post-Schooling: Rethinking Educational Pathways with Agro-pastoralists in Southwest Ethiopia  Section 7: Culture, Childhood and Development  39. Section Introduction  40. Language Policy, Development and Translanguaging in Africa  41. Children’s Play Cultures in West Africa  42. The Role of Videogames in The Socio-Cultural Life of Children in Peru  43. Sport for Development  44.  Resisting State-Sponsored Oppression through Applied Theatre: A Brazilian case study