Children, Young People and Care (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Horton, John; Pyer, Michelle

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together new, multidisciplinary research on the lives and experiences of children and young people as carers, as cared for, and in relation to spaces and institutions of care. This book is the first specifically devoted to the subject of care in relation to childhood and youth. As such, the book will be a key resource for academics, practitioners and students seeking leading-edge empirical and conceptual material on this topic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317416081
• Artikelnr.: 48408581

Autorenporträt

John Horton is Associate Professor in Human Geography and Associate Director of the Centre for Children and Youth (CCY) at the University of Northampton, UK. Michelle Pyer is a Senior Researcher in the Institute for Health and Wellbeing at the University of Northampton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: children, young people and 'care' 2. Who cares and how
would you know? Conceptualising 'doxic' care 3. Theories underpinning
kinship care 4. State of care: the ontologies of child welfare in British
Columbia 5. Caring citizens: emotional engagement and social action in
educational settings in New Zealand 6. Orphanages as spaces of care and
control 7. Carefully controlled: young people and their pathways through
spaces of secure care 8. Children creating spaces of care in diverse early
childhood centre built environments: a complex interplay of social
relations and materialities 9. Children and young people as providers of
care: perceptions of caregivers and young caregiving in Zambia 10. Caring
after parental death: sibling practices and continuing bonds 11. Kindness:
caring for self, others and nature - who cares and why? 12. Young women's
careful and careless drinking geographies 13. Views of young people with
cognitive disability about care in their relationships 14. Globalising
child circulation: the care of children who are privately fostered across
international borders 15. Reflection 1: Distance, connection and the power,
freedom and obligation (not) to care 16. Reflection 2: Providing care:
challenges for practitioners and service-providers 17. Reflection 3:
Children, young people and 'caringscapes'