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Calls for Papers: Publishing

Special Issue “Contemporary Developments in Child Protection”

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The following Special Issue will be published in Social Sciences
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci, ISSN 2076-0760),
and is now open to receive submissions of full research papers and
comprehensive review articles for peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Contemporary Developments in Child Protection
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/child_protection/
Guest Editor: Professor Nigel Parton
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2014

Summary

The last forty years has witnessed increasing public, political and
media concern about the problem of child maltreatment and what
to do about it. This is now evident in most jurisdictions and is
receiving serious attention from many international and trans-national
organisations. While the (re)discovery of the problem in the USA in
the 1960s was particularly associated with the ‘battered baby
syndrome’ this has now broadened to include: physical abuse,
sexual abuse, neglect, emotional abuse, abuse on the internet, child
trafficking, sexual exploitation, and to effect all children and young
people and not just young babies. Similarly the focus of attention has
broadened from intra-familial abuse to abuse in a whole variety of
settings including schools, day care, the church and the wider
community. There has also been a broadening of concern from not
simply protecting children and young people from serious harm but
to also prevent the impairment of their health and development and
to ensure that they are able to grow up in circumstances which are
consistent with the provision of safe and effective care so that all
children can achieve the best outcomes.

In the process the laws, policies, practices and systems which have
been developed to try to identify and prevent child maltreatment
have become much more wide-ranging and complex and have
themselves been subject to continual criticism and review. Social
workers, health and education workers, the police and other criminal
justice workers as well as members of the wider community are all
seen to have key roles to play in both protecting children and young
people and assessing and monitoring actual and potential perpetrators.

While these issues have been subject to often heated and high profile
media and political debate they have not received sustained analytic
and research based attention in the social sciences. The issue of child
protection is often seen as somewhat marginal to a whole range of
social science disciplines.  The purpose of this Special Issue is to try
and act as something of a corrective to this. It encourages the
submission of papers from a wide range of disciplines including law,
sociology, politics, criminology, psychology, anthropology, education,
social work, social policy and gender studies as well as contributions
which are cross-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary.

Keywords

*  Child abuse
*  Child protection
*  Child maltreatment
*  Public protection
*  The role of state, family and community
*  Family support
*  Social surveillance
*  Risk to children

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.
Submitted papers should not have been published previously,
nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also
encourage authors to send us their tentative title and short
abstract to the Editorial Office (socsci@mdpi.com) for approval.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited
and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more
frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is
supported by the authors and their institutes.
More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

The Article Processing Charges (APC) will be waived for well prepared
manuscripts. However, a fee of 250 CHF may apply for those articles
that need major editing and formatting and/or English editing.
For details see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/instructions/.
Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission
and editorial system at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760) is an international, peer-reviewed,
quick-refereeing open access journal (free for readers), which publishes
works from extensive fields including anthropology, economics, law,
linguistics, education, geography, history, political science, psychology,
sociology and so on. Social Sciences is published by MDPI online quarterly.

MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed at
http://www.mdpi.com/. The Editorial Board members, including several
Nobel Laureates (http://www.mdpi.com/about/nobelists/), are all leading
active scholars. All MDPI journals maintain rapid, yet rigorous, peer-
review, manuscript handling and editorial processes. MDPI journals have
increased their impact factors, see “2012 Newly Released Impact Factors”,
http://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/398.

In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at:
socsci@mdpi.com.

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: Law and the Child Conference

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The Law and the Child in Historical Perspective, 1400-2000

http://gooch010.wix.com/law-child-conference

June 1-2, 2014
University of Minnesota Law School,
229 19th Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Note: Because of the holidays we will be accepting proposals until January 6

The study of the history of children, youth and childhood has grown dramatically in the last two decades, making age a new category of historical analysis.  The Law and the Child will focus on law’s central role in changing understandings of childhood and children’s experiences, considering among other things selfhood, family, market relations, society, and state.  Our hope is for a broad reach geographically and chronologically, from the Medieval World to the Twenty-First Century, and for papers that consider the multiple sources that intersect in the legal construction of childhood and in children’s lived legal experiences.  These include race, class, gender, disability, sexuality, ethnicity, psychology, dependency, agency, citizenship, and (il)legitimacy.  We also hope papers will address topics in both civil and criminal law.  The conference, one of a series begun in 2007, is intended to showcase the work of junior scholars working the field of legal history and to bring them into conversation with senior scholars.  It is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Law School and History Department, the American Society for Legal History, the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, the Society for the History of Children and Youth, the Childhood and Youth Studies Across the Disciplines IAS Research Collaborative at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and History Department, the University of Illinois College of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, and the University of Chicago Department of History.

Interested participants should submit a proposal of no more than 300 words, in Word format, accompanied by a cv of no more than 3 pages to Barbara Welke atwelke004@umn.edu.  All proposals are due by 6 January 2014.  Applicants will be notified by email no later than 17 February 2014 whether their proposals have been accepted for presentation.  No previously published work will be accepted, as the conference is designed to provide a forum for productive and supportive discussion of works in progress.

Accepted participants will be required to submit a full paper, in Word format, of no more than 10,000 words by 1 May 2014.  All papers will be pre-circulated on a password-protected website, and read by all participants.  A modest travel and accommodations budget will be provided for all presenters.

Job Postings

Connectors Study: 2 Research Fellow positions at the University of Sussex with fieldwork in Greece and India

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Two exciting research fellow positions that have just opened up at the University of Sussex to join the Connectors Study research team on an international, five-year, cross-cultural study on children’s participation in public life funded by the European Research Council. Please feel free to forward this email to your students, colleagues, and anyone else you think might be suitable and interested in applying for the roles.

The role particulars and further information can be found at the links below

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/413 (Greece)

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/414 (India)

Job Postings

Limited Term Appointment

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The Childhood and Social Institutions Program at Kings University College at
Western University in Ontario, Canada invites applications for a 1-year
limited-term appointment.

Information about the College and the Program are available at
http://www.kings.uwo.ca/academics/interdisciplinary-programs/childhood-and-s
ocial-institutions/

The main responsibility of the appointment is teaching a 3-3 load in the
historical, cultural, and social study of childhood.  The Program has a
particular need in the area of childhood, discourse, and representation.

To apply please send a letter of interest and a c.v. to:

Dr. Alan Pomfret

CSI Program Coordinator

Pomfret@uwo.ca

Inquiries to the same.

Resources

Children, Youth and Environments Vol. 23, No. 3, 2013 is now available online

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The new issue of the Children, Youth and Environments Journal includes nine articles from the U.S.A., Canada, Sweden, and Turkey on various topics, including travel to school, outdoor play, sense of place, perceptions of neighborhood safety, and use of urban parks and nature.

See below for the detailed table of contents.  The issue is available at:  http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=chilyoutenvi

You will find access and subscription information on:  http://www.colorado.edu/cye/cye-journal/subscription-information

Please, share this announcement with appropriate professional networks, listservs, and interested others.

Louise Chawla

Fahriye Sancar

Willem van Vliet–

Editors

Children, Youth and Environments

A Journal of Research, Policy and Applications

University of Colorado

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: Seeking Panels for Sponsorship by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus, American Studies Association

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Call for Panels: Sponsorship by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus of the ASA

The Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association invites submissions of childhood-and-youth-themed panels for consideration. The caucus will select two panels for sponsorship.

In 2014, the ASA meets in Los Angeles, CA, from November 6-9. The theme title is “The Fun and the Fury: Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain in the Post-American Century.” (Read the entire description of the meeting
theme here: http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/submit_a_proposal/)

There is much in this theme that resonates with childhood and youth studies. A few possible approaches to explore:

-Discipline, rebellion, and agency
-Youth, athletics, money, and work
-Games, hobbies, and productivity
-“Edutainment,” consumption, and learning
-Images and visions of idyllic and threatened childhoods, and their interplay

If you would like your panel to be considered for caucus sponsorship, please submit your proposal—a panel abstract, abstracts for each paper, and short bios for each participant, including the chair/commentator—by January 16. Send your materials to Rebecca Onion (rebeccaonion@gmail.com) and Nicholas Syrett (nicholas.syrett@unco.edu).

The ASA’s submission deadline is January 26. We will let you know well before the deadline whether your panel has been chosen for sponsorship, so that selected panels can append that information to their application. You will be responsible for submitting your panel proposal to the ASA.

Please contact Rebecca Onion (rebeccaonion@gmail.com) or Nicholas Syrett (nicholas.syrett@unco.edu) with questions.

Funding Opportunities, Training/Education

TWO Funded PhD opportunities at University of Hull, UK

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Caring Children in Malawi & East Yorkshire – Children’s Work within Families affected by Illness and Disability 

This PhD studentship is an opportunity to explore across connected communities, the care-giving work children undertake for family members (parents, siblings, grandparents, other adult relatives) with differing needs for care based on chronic illness (especially HIV), associated disability/impairment, young and old age.

This studentship will investigate the outcomes of caregiving by children in the Global North and South across rural and urban locales with respect to young caregivers’ education, health, well-being and aspiration. Sharing lessons North-South and South-North through connecting stakeholder partners in Hull, East Yorkshire and Malawi in Southern Africa, the study will inform policies and interventions to support families affected by illness/disability.

This study offers a valuable opportunity to extend ongoing inter-disciplinary research by human geographers and other social scientists. Informed by a ‘new social studies of childhood’ perspective and using a qualitative, participatory methodology the project aims to explore outcomes of caregiving by children for their education, physical and emotional wellbeing and aspirations.

A key objective is to identify policies and practices to support families with care needs. This will be achieved through engagement with and connecting organisations supporting young caregivers in Southern Malawi and Hull/East Riding in order to undertake fieldwork (funding available) and develop policy recommendations. Interested applicants should have relevant degree (min 2:1) or Masters in sociology, human geography, social work or related discipline

To discuss informally how you might develop this doctoral research please contact Dr Elsbeth Robson <mailto:E.Robson@hull.ac.uk> 10, Department of Geography, Environment and Earth Science.


In order to qualify for this scholarship you will require at least a 2.1, but preferably a Masters degree, in a relevant subject.
Full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship will include fees at the‘home/EU’ student rate and maintenance (£13,726 in 2014/15) for three years, depending on satisfactory progress. Full-time International Fee PhD Studentships will include full fees at the International student rate for three years, dependent on satisfactory progress.
PhD students at the University of Hull follow modules for research and transferable skills development and gain a Masters level Certificate, or Diploma, in Research Training, in addition to their research degree.
Closing date: – 3rd February 2014.

For details of how to apply please visit the 2014 PhD Studentships web pages <http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/graduateschool/phdscholarships.aspx#ConnectedCommunities>  http://www2.hull.ac.uk/researchandinnovation/connectedcommunities/phdscholarships/caringchildren.aspx

Calls for Papers: Publishing

CFP – Special Issue of *Jeunesse* on Consumption

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Call for Papers
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures
Special Issue on Consumption

Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures invites essay submissions for a special issue addressing the many interpretations of consumption and their meanings in relation to youth texts and culture(s). We welcome essays that consider registers of race, class, gender, and disability. Essays should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words in length and prepared for blind peer-review.

Consumption is a vehicle through which we come to understand proprietary relationships with people, places, bodies, and identities. If food is the primary signifier when we think of consumption, how might we read metaphoric consumption (of capital, culture, and place, for instance) in light of notions of necessity and survival?

Submissions of articles, which should include abstracts, are requested by: 15 December 2013.

Topics may include:

– representations of food or the ingestion of food and drink
– eating disorders, the stigma of obesity, and fatphobia
– pedagogy of health
– consumption as disease (ie. tuberculosis)
– obsession or fixation
– symbolic acts of devouring/being devoured
– cannibalism or consuming the self (eg. vampires, fairy tales)
– consumption, purchasing, ownership, and material culture
– discourses of consumption (good/bad consumers)
– young people as consumers, advertising for or about young people
– cultural consumerism/tourism

Inquiries may be directed to Larissa Wodtke, Managing Editor:
l.wodtke@uwinnipeg.ca

Further information about submission guidelines is available at:
http://jeunessejournal.ca

To download a PDF of the CFP:
http://crytc.uwinnipeg.ca/pdf/Jeunesse_Special_Issue_Consumption_CFP.pdf