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Children Living Under Difficult Circumstance: Transcending Power, Violence and Injustice in Children's Lives
Children Living Under Difficult Circumstance: Transcending Power, Violence and Injustice in Children's Lives
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 802B (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC53 Sociology of Childhood (host committee) Language: English
Innovations in sociological thinking about children and childhood has rightly caught the imagination of scholars and activists exploring the lives of children outside of the global North. By eliciting the voices of children living under especially difficult circumstances, and by allowing their experiences and meanings to frame analysis, close study is tracing through the deliberative action and understandings of children living in situations in which they have hitherto been uncritically regarded as passive victims. This session therefore invites papers from scholars seeking to explore how children understand their lives under such conditions and especially how they respond to this, including their coping mechanisms and the strategies they seek to develop to transcend their circumstances. Papers may address, inter alia, the militarisation of children, children’s work and labour, child migrants, children living in poverty, and homelessness, although this list is far from exhaustive. A key consideration of this session is to consider what empirical findings may reveal about children living under difficult circumstances in both the global north and south; and what these may mean for developing sociological understanding and theorisation.
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