Childhood Studies

Karen Wells is Reader in International Development and Childhood Studies and Programme Director for Children, Youth and International Development at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of Childhood in a Global Perspective (2nd edition).

• 1 Making young subjects2 The disciplines3 Governing through race, governing through childhood4 Policing gender5 Class discrimination in childhood6 Disability in Childhood Studies7 Children’s bodies matter8 Development psychology and Social Identity Theory9 Consuming childhoods10 ConclusionBibliography

"Wells offers an interesting, astute and highly accessible analysis of the interconnections between liberalism, racism and the creation of the child subject. Her work compels Childhood Studies to become more self-critical."Sarada Balagopalan, Rutgers University "This original and provocative book has the potential to shift several key paradigms within Childhood Studies and set the agenda for future debates. Focusing on the interplay between the biological and the social, the book offers new and challenging ways of theorizing childhoods."Heather Montgomery, The Open University