Global Childhoods in International Perspective: Universality, Diversity and Inequalities

• Introduction by Claudio Baraldi & Lucia Rabello De CastroSection 1. Problematizing Universality, Diversity and Inequalities in Global ChildhoodsChapter 1. Roots and problems of universalism: the concept of children’s agency by Claudio BaraldiChapter 2. Age Epistemology and the Politics of Age by Lucia Rabello De CastroChapter 3. Inequalities in French Speaking and Anglo-Saxon Childhood Sociologies by Regine SirotaSection 2. Issues of Children’s Agency in Global ChildhoodsChapter 4. Globalization, school and redefinition of childhood in Burkina Faso by Isabelle DanicChapter 5. Examining Child Mobility and Transport in South Africa. Challenges for Theory and Practice by Sharmla RamaChapter 6. The limits of healthism: Understanding children’s conceptions of health by Tobia FattoreSection 3. Identities and social transformation in global childhoodsChapter 7. Success: A ‘leitmotiv’ of Kyrgyz childhoods by Doris Bühler-NiederbergerChapter 8. Child Abuse and Neglect in India. Locating child abuse in fractured Indian families through children’s lenses by Vinod ChandraChapter 9. Identity and Social Integration among the Children of African Immigrants in France by Loretta BassChapter 10. Fluctuating Social Class Mobility of Filipino Migrant Children in France and in Italy by Asuncion Freznoza-Flot & Itaru Nagasaka

A timely and comprehensive reading of the complexities of the local and global scenarios of contemporary childhood.Dr. Ana Vergara, Associate Professor, Universidad de Santiago, Chile.