Childhood Studies: Making Young Subjects
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 14 - Geography and Environmental Studies
- Output identifier
- 1034
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Polity Press
- ISBN
- 9780745670249
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book interrogates the relationship between the emergence of modern childhood and of racial capitalism. It is the culmination of over 15 years research and draws on the semiotic analysis of visual and material cultures in the USA and UK (chapters 3, 6, 7, 9) and on the thematic analysis of qualitative interviews with working class teenagers in London (chapter 5) to develop the arguments. Wells argues for the importance of analysing childhood as a subjectivity formed at the intersection of political economy and socio-cultural fields and in relation to bio-social capacities, to understand the relation to contemporary global capitalism.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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