Childhood with Bourdieu

ISBN-13: 9781137384737 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 225 str.

Leena Alanen; Liz Brooker; Berry Mayall

Opis

This book breaks new ground in its theorizing of childhood within sociological concepts. Over the course of nine chapters, authors give detailed accounts of the lives of children in a range of societies, including England, sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Ireland, France, Andhra Pradesh and Finland. They describe their studies in the light of Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - to consider the social status of childhood, the tensions between schooling and work in the lives of children, children's relations with adults, and the pressures on childhood resulting from globalization and from the professional discourse of those adults who aim to help them. The authors are all established researchers who are committed to improving the social status and well-being of childhood, in social, economic and political worlds that too often fail to accord children respect for their human rights.

Recenzje

"The book will be well received by researchers seeking to become familiar with Bourdieu's work. I am also convinced that it will become an important point of reference for scholars already familiar with the application of Bourdieu's thinking. Alanen, Brooker and Berry's edited collection will enable readers to better address and situate the complex issues children face in a quickly changing socio-technical world." (Christina Rebekka Ergler, Children's Geographies, Vol. 15 (1), March, 2017)

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Leena Alanen, Liz Brooker and Berry Mayall 2. Intergenerational Relations: Embodiment over Time; Berry Mayall 3. Cultural Capital in the Preschool Years: Can the State 'Compensate' for the Family?; Liz Brooker 4. Between Young Children and Adults: Practical Logic in Families' Lives; Pascale Garnier 5. Early Childhood Education as a Social Field: Everyday Struggles and Practices of Dominance; Mari Vuorisalo and Leena Alanen 6. 'A Fish in Water?' Social Lives and Local Connections: the Case of Young People who Travel Outside their Local Areas to Secondary School; Abigail Knight 7. Childhood in Africa between Local Powers and Global Hierarchies; Geraldine Andre and Mathieu Hilgers 8. "Those who are good to us, we call them friends": Social Support and Social Networks for Children Growing up in Poverty in Rural Andhra Pradesh, India; Virginia Morrow and Uma Vennam 9. Struggling to Support: Genesis of the Practice of Using Support Persons in the Finnish Child Welfare Field; Johanna Moilanen, Johanna Kiili and Leena Alanen 10. Decision-making Processes in Review Meetings for Children in Care: a Bourdieusian Analysis; Karen Winter

O autorze

Géraldine André, National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium Mathieu Hilgers, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Johanna Kiili, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Abigail Knight, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Johanna Moilanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Virginia Morrow, University of Oxford, UK Uma Vennam, Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalam, India Mari Vuorisalo, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Karen Winter, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland