878
Well-Being As a Framework for Understanding ‘Childhoods in a Global World’: Issues in Undertaking Multinational Qualitative Research on Child Well-Being

Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 08:30-10:20
Location: 802B (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC53 Sociology of Childhood (host committee)

Language: English

Research on ‘the plurality of childhoods’ is a central concern of childhood sociology, providing a platform through which childhood sociologists have examined the variety of childhoods under conditions of globalisation. Recent developments in the field have used the framework of ‘well-being’ to provide an analytical framework to compare diverse childhoods in response to other, more powerful and influential indicators of development. Concepts of justice are central to many child well-being frameworks, for example the capability and child rights approaches.

The normativity of the concept of well-being, how children’s subjective understandings and experiences of well-being can be integrated into research on children’s well-being and the value of multi-national perspectives, remain significant questions within the field. The panel will explore these questions and how concepts of well-being relate to possibilities for justice for children. The panel will be guided by the following questions:

1. How can we understand and define child well-being? As a normative construct, subjective assessment, or as an open concept to be delineated through empirical research?

2. What contribution do local, trans-local, national and transnational factors play in constituting shared or different meanings and experiences of well-being?

3. What are the possibilities for comparative analysis of children’s well-being that take into account the diversity of lived experiences and the geo-political configurations, structures and cultural processes that delimit possibilities for well-being?

The proposed panel seeks to explore these issues, with a specific focus on the challenges involved in undertaking qualitative research on children’s well-being from a comparative multi-national perspective.

Session Organizers:
Tobia FATTORE, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia, Susann FEGTER, University of Technolgy Berlin, Germany and Christine HUNNER-KREISEL, University of Vechta, Germany
Chair:
Tobia FATTORE, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia
Co-Chair:
Susann FEGTER, University of Technolgy Berlin, Germany
Oral Presentations
878.1
Children’s Agency and Vulnerability. Theoretical and Empirical Considerations Concerning Child Well-Being Research
Veronika MAGYAR-HAAS, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Morad SALAH, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Catrin HEITE, University of Zürich, Switzerland
878.2
The Significance of Space and Place for Well-Being in Childhood
Lise MOGENSEN, Western Sydney University, Australia; Michel EDENBOROUGH, Western Sydney University, Australia; Jan MASON, Western Sydney University, Australia; Gabrielle DRAKE, Australian Catholic University, Australia; Janet FALLOON, Western Sydney University, Australia; Rhea FELTON, Western Sydney University, Australia
878.3
Children with Disabilities in Child Well-Being Research – an Inclusive Methodology
Lise MOGENSEN, Western Sydney University, Australia; Michel EDENBOROUGH, Western Sydney University, Australia; Jan MASON, Western Sydney University, Australia
878.4
Concepts of Well-Being of Children in Baku/Azerbaijan
Christine HUNNER-KREISEL, University of Vechta, Germany
878.5
Voices of Children’s, Social Security and Well-Being in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad ZAMAN, Department of Sociology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; Zularsh ABBASI, Department of Sociology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan
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