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Children and young people's cultural worlds
An overview of how children and young people engage with the social world, particularly in terms of globalisation and new media.
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New Parents and Young Children in Consumer Culture
This ebook of Young Consumers addresses matters of consumption from the perspective of new parents and their children. Papers in this volume explore the significance of consumer culture for new parents, the diversity of consumption practices available to them and the parenting styles they may imagine or inhabit through engagement with the market. From the routine purchase of baby products and other forms of provisioning, the papers in this collection examine the work of commodities in preparation for parenthood. Papers discuss the expansion of the commercial sphere and the increasing commodification of every aspect of pregnancy and parenthood. Additionally, parents-to-be approach their new role with a set of personally generated ideas on what they may need to start a family. It may be productive to ask where the extent and limits of the market lie in relation to new parenthood. Are they bounded by the needs of the newborn or do they extend to housing, childcare and education for example? And what do we know about those without the financial resources to buy their way into new parenthood? In the seemingly private decision to parent, consumption can be seen as a key site for the production of new social divisions. If this is the case then parenting can be examined as a politically important project in which relations with the market and the state may be reconfigured.
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Introduction to Childhood Studies
Covers developments in children's literature, moral panic around sexual abuse, the impact of media technology on children's lives. This book also covers children's rights and educational provision including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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