Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the European University Cyprus, Cyprus. He is also the founder of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network. Rachel Rosen is Associate Professor in Childhood at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Daniel Thomas Cook is Professor and founding faculty of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University –Camden, USA. He is co-editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research.

• Preface1. Introduction: Connectivities…Relationalities…Linkages..., Spyros Spyrou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus), Rachel Rosen (UCL Institute of Education, UK) and Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University, USA)Part I: Spatial and Temporal Challenges and Interventions2. Childhood, Culture, History: Re-thinking ‘Multiple Childhoods’, Sarada Balagopalan (Rutgers University, USA)3. Geographies of Play: Scales of Imagination in the Study of Child-made Things, Karen Sánchez-Eppler(Amherst College, USA)4. Thinking the Adult-Child Relationship with Existentialism, Clémentine Beauvais (University of York, UK)Part II: Rethinking Materiality and Political Economy5. Childhood (re)materialized: Bringing Political-Economy into the Field, Jason Hart (University of Bath, UK) and Jo Boyden (University of Oxford, UK)6. Decolonizing Childhood Studies: Overcoming Patriarchy and Prejudice in Child-related Research and Practice, Kristen Cheney (International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands)7. Children’s Geographies and the 'New Wave' of Childhood Studies, Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham) and John Horton (University of Northampton, UK)Part III: Decentering the Agentic Subject of Childhood Studies8. Panaceas of Play: Stepping Past the Creative Child, Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University, USA)9. Queer Young People of Color and the Affects of Agency, Stephen B. Bernardini (Rutgers University, USA)10. Politics and the Interview: Unraveling Immigrant Children’s Narrations and Identity Performances, Stavroula Kontovourki (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) and Eleni Theodorou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus)Part IV: Engagements with Political Subjects and Subjectivities11. Who is (to be) the Subject of Children’s Rights?, Matías Cordero Arce (Independent Scholar, Young Offenders Institution (14-17 years), Spain)12. Reimagining Disabled Children within Childhood Studies: The Challenge of Difference, Mary Wickenden (UCL Institute of Education, UK)13. What Space for a Children’s Politics? Rethinking Infancy in Childhood Studies, David Oswell (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)ReferencesIndex

This book is a very welcome addition to the critical literature in Childhood Studies, timely in the questions raised and insights provided. Disruption, dialogue and descent are core, lending an authoritative focus to re-thinking the field to a more outward looking stance, scaling up and confident assertion of its contribution to knowledge. A thorough and highly engaging read that I will have as core reading for my students.

Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the European University Cyprus, Cyprus. He is also the founder of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network. Rachel Rosen is Associate Professor in Childhood at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Daniel Thomas Cook is Professor and founding faculty of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University –Camden, USA. He is co-editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research.

• Preface1. Introduction: Connectivities…Relationalities…Linkages..., Spyros Spyrou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus), Rachel Rosen (UCL Institute of Education, UK) and Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University, USA)Part I: Spatial and Temporal Challenges and Interventions2. Childhood, Culture, History: Re-thinking ‘Multiple Childhoods’, Sarada Balagopalan (Rutgers University, USA)3. Geographies of Play: Scales of Imagination in the Study of Child-made Things, Karen Sánchez-Eppler(Amherst College, USA)4. Thinking the Adult-Child Relationship with Existentialism, Clémentine Beauvais (University of York, UK)Part II: Rethinking Materiality and Political Economy5. Childhood (re)materialized: Bringing Political-Economy into the Field, Jason Hart (University of Bath, UK) and Jo Boyden (University of Oxford, UK)6. Decolonizing Childhood Studies: Overcoming Patriarchy and Prejudice in Child-related Research and Practice, Kristen Cheney (International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands)7. Children’s Geographies and the 'New Wave' of Childhood Studies, Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham) and John Horton (University of Northampton, UK)Part III: Decentering the Agentic Subject of Childhood Studies8. Panaceas of Play: Stepping Past the Creative Child, Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University, USA)9. Queer Young People of Color and the Affects of Agency, Stephen B. Bernardini (Rutgers University, USA)10. Politics and the Interview: Unraveling Immigrant Children’s Narrations and Identity Performances, Stavroula Kontovourki (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) and Eleni Theodorou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus)Part IV: Engagements with Political Subjects and Subjectivities11. Who is (to be) the Subject of Children’s Rights?, Matías Cordero Arce (Independent Scholar, Young Offenders Institution (14-17 years), Spain)12. Reimagining Disabled Children within Childhood Studies: The Challenge of Difference, Mary Wickenden (UCL Institute of Education, UK)13. What Space for a Children’s Politics? Rethinking Infancy in Childhood Studies, David Oswell (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)ReferencesIndex

This book is a very welcome addition to the critical literature in Childhood Studies, timely in the questions raised and insights provided. Disruption, dialogue and descent are core, lending an authoritative focus to re-thinking the field to a more outward looking stance, scaling up and confident assertion of its contribution to knowledge. A thorough and highly engaging read that I will have as core reading for my students.

Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the European University Cyprus, Cyprus. He is also the founder of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network. Rachel Rosen is Associate Professor in Childhood at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Daniel Thomas Cook is Professor and founding faculty of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University –Camden, USA. He is co-editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research.

• Preface1. Introduction: Connectivities…Relationalities…Linkages..., Spyros Spyrou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus), Rachel Rosen (UCL Institute of Education, UK) and Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University, USA)Part I: Spatial and Temporal Challenges and Interventions2. Childhood, Culture, History: Re-thinking ‘Multiple Childhoods’, Sarada Balagopalan (Rutgers University, USA)3. Geographies of Play: Scales of Imagination in the Study of Child-made Things, Karen Sánchez-Eppler(Amherst College, USA)4. Thinking the Adult-Child Relationship with Existentialism, Clémentine Beauvais (University of York, UK)Part II: Rethinking Materiality and Political Economy5. Childhood (re)materialized: Bringing Political-Economy into the Field, Jason Hart (University of Bath, UK) and Jo Boyden (University of Oxford, UK)6. Decolonizing Childhood Studies: Overcoming Patriarchy and Prejudice in Child-related Research and Practice, Kristen Cheney (International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands)7. Children’s Geographies and the 'New Wave' of Childhood Studies, Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham) and John Horton (University of Northampton, UK)Part III: Decentering the Agentic Subject of Childhood Studies8. Panaceas of Play: Stepping Past the Creative Child, Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University, USA)9. Queer Young People of Color and the Affects of Agency, Stephen B. Bernardini (Rutgers University, USA)10. Politics and the Interview: Unraveling Immigrant Children’s Narrations and Identity Performances, Stavroula Kontovourki (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) and Eleni Theodorou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus)Part IV: Engagements with Political Subjects and Subjectivities11. Who is (to be) the Subject of Children’s Rights?, Matías Cordero Arce (Independent Scholar, Young Offenders Institution (14-17 years), Spain)12. Reimagining Disabled Children within Childhood Studies: The Challenge of Difference, Mary Wickenden (UCL Institute of Education, UK)13. What Space for a Children’s Politics? Rethinking Infancy in Childhood Studies, David Oswell (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)ReferencesIndex

This book is a very welcome addition to the critical literature in Childhood Studies, timely in the questions raised and insights provided. Disruption, dialogue and descent are core, lending an authoritative focus to re-thinking the field to a more outward looking stance, scaling up and confident assertion of its contribution to knowledge. A thorough and highly engaging read that I will have as core reading for my students.