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Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain : Literature, Media and Society, PDF eBook

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain : Literature, Media and Society PDF

Edited by Sandra Dinter, Ralf Schneider

Part of the Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present series

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In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties.

Since the Thatcher years, juvenile delinquency, child poverty, and protection have been persistent issues in public discourse.

Simultaneously, childhood has advanced as a popular subject in the arts, as the wealth of current films and novels in this field indicates.

Focusing on the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries, this collection assembles contributions concerned with current political, social, and cultural dimensions of childhood in the United Kingdom.

The individual chapters, written by internationally renowned experts from the social sciences and the humanities, address a broad spectrum of contemporary childhood issues, including debates on child protection, school dress codes, the media, the representation and construction of children in audiovisual media, and literary awards for children’s fiction.

Appealing to a wide scholarly audience by joining perspectives from various disciplines, including art history, education, law, film and TV studies, sociology, and literary studies, this volume endorses a transdisciplinary and meta-theoretical approach to the study of childhood.

It seeks to both illustrate and dismantle the various ways in which childhood has been implicitly and explicitly conceived in different disciplines in the wake of the constructivist paradigm shift in childhood studies.

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