Those of you in the Washington DC area may be interested in attending the launch of Susan Shepler’s new book, Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone.
Category Archives: New Books
New book: Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods
New release, by Immaculada García-Sánchez
Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods: The Politics of Belonging
(2014) Wiley Blackwell
New titles on Children, Young People and Families — Policy Press, University of Bristol
JUST RELEASED
by Ray Jones
We are very pleased to announced that The story of Baby P will be publishing on 16 July. This long-awaited book had been on hold, pending the conclusion the hacking trial. This book is the first to tell what happened to ‘Baby P’, how the story was told by the media and its considerable impact on the child protection system in England.
£10.39 on our website
COMING SOON
Edited by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Carol-Ann Hooper and Val Gillies
In this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how “troubles” feature in “normal” families, and how the “normal” features in “troubled” families.
£19.99 on our website
by Carmel Smith and Sheila Greene
Presents the perspectives of 22 leading figures involved in shaping the field of Childhood Studies over the last 30 years. They reflect on the changes that have taken place in the study of children and childhood, discuss ideas underpinning the field, examine current dilemmas and explore challenges for the future.
£60.00 on our website
Maggie Blyth
Three years after the publication of the influential Munro Report (2011) this important publication draws together a range of experts working in the field of child protection to critically examine what impact the reforms have had on multi agency child protection systems in this country, at both local and national level.
£13.59 on our website
Edited by Pam Foley and Andy Rixon
This new edition of the bestselling textbook critically examines the potential and reality of closer ‘working together’ and asks whether such new ways of working will be able to respond more effectively to the needs and aspirations of children and their families.
£17.59 on our website
by Jenny Reynolds, Catherine Houlston, Lester Coleman and Gordon Harold
The book shows how children are affected by conflict, explores why they respond to conflict in different ways, and provides clear, practical guidance on the best ways to ameliorate the effects.
£13.59 on our website
Edited by Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel
In this original, topical book, leading experts from eight countries examine how early education and care is organised, funded and regulated in their countries.
£56.00 on our website
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New Release – Children in a Sri Lankan Village by Bambi Chapin
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Children in a Sri Lankan VillageShaping Hierarchy and DesireBambi L. Chapin“What makes this book so special is that it does not stop at description, as do most ethnographies. It goes on to explain Sinhalese childhood and child rearing, doing so within a well-considered, smartly-deployed psychoanalytic framework.” —Naomi Quinn, professor emerita, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
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Playing with Languages by Amy L. Paugh — Now in Paperback
Now out in paperback:
Playing With Languages: Children and Change in a Caribbean Village
by Amy L. Paugh
http://berghahnbooks.com/
Should you like to consider this publication for course adoption, an examination copy request slip can be found here: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/
extras/docs/exam/PaughPlaying_ 9781782385165.html. The examination fee is fully refundable if you adopt this text. You can submit the form electronically or fax it to: (212) 233-6007. You can also request a digital exam copy of the book by clicking here:http://berghahn.einspections.
eb20.com/Requests/Step1/ 9780857457615
For more information on this title or any other from Berghahn Books, please visit www.berghahnbooks.com.
New book series — Children and Youth in Popular Culture
New book series from Lexington Books, edited by Debbie Olson
More info
New Book: Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State
Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State:
Care and Contested Interests
Lauren Heidbrink
Announcing the very timely publication of a new book on unaccompanied children and detention, Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests. Written by anthropologist Lauren Heidbrink, this compelling ethnography draws on U.S. historical, political, legal, and institutional practices to contextualize the lives of children and youth as they move through federal detention facilities, immigration and family courts, federal foster care programs, and their communities across the United States and Central America.
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15214.html
New Book – Tweening the Girl
Tweening the Girl: The Crystallization of the Tween Market.By Natalie CoulterPeter Lang: Mediated Youth Series. Tweening the Girl, challenges the accepted argument that the tween market began in the mid-1990s. It was actually during the 1980s that young girls were given the label, “tweens” and were heralded by marketers, and subsequently the news media, as one of “capitalism’s most valuable customers”. Tweening the Girl, expertly traces the emergence of tween during this era as she slowly became known to the consumer marketplace as a lucrative customer, market and audience. It clearly illustrates how ‘tweenhood’ which is often assumed to be a natural category of childhood is actually a product of the industries of the youth media marketplace that began to position the preteen girl as a separate market niche that is notched out of the transitory spaces between childhood and adolescence. Relying predominantly upon a textual analysis of trade publications in the 1980s and early 1990s the book eloquently maps out the synergistic processes of the marketing, advertising, merchandising and media industries as they slowly began to take interest in the girl and began to define her as a tween; an empowered female consumer who is no longer a child but not quite a teen. |
| Natalie Coulter is an assistant professor of communication studies at York University. She is a founding member of ARCYP (Association for Research on the Cultures of Young People) and has published in a number of journals including the Canadian Journal of Communication and Juenesse. |