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Global Childhoods in International Perspective gathers a wide spectrum of contributors from Europe, the U.S., South Asia, South Africa and Latin America, who, attuned with present dilemmas in the area of childhood studies, discuss some key theoretical and empirical aspects of child scholarship, such as identity, child wellbeing, child mobility and migration, intergenerational relationships and child abuse. Through these expert contributions, the book explores the many ways in which the relationship between universality and particularities of childhood plays an important role in describing global childhoods. The book highlights childhood as a cross-cutting issue in global sociology with chapters on globalization and schooling in Burkina Faso, child abuse and neglect in India, identity and integration among children of African immigrants in France, social class mobility of Filipino migrant children in Italy and France, and an investigation into Kyrgyz childhoods. Ideal reading for researchers, practitioners and students interested in both childhood studies and the other areas including community research, sociology of education, social stratification, and the sociology of migration.
The Limits of Healthism : Understanding Children’s Conceptions of Health
The Limits of Healthism : Understanding Children’s Conceptions of Health
Introduction
Children’s health has been a site for establishing normative expectations as to what constitutes appropriate parenting and childhood behaviours. Because of the conflation between healthy lifestyle practices and wellbeing, children’s bodies become the site of anxieties regarding the health of populations. The intention of this chapter is to explore children’s understandings of health in relation to these anxieties. In particular I examine what children consider to be important to their health and to what extent children are agents in their own health promotion, based on a qualitative study with children about their wellbeing, undertaken in New South Wales, a province of Australia.
The chapter shows that ...
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