Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood

Taylor & Francis

Reconceptualising agency and childhood: an introduction. Section I: Theoretical Perspectives 1. Re-aligning children's agency and re-socialising children in Childhood Studies. 2. Children as participants in practices: the challenges which practice theories pose to an actor-centred sociology of childhood. 3. Neither \""thick\"" nor \""thin\"": reconceptualising agency and childhood relationally. 4. Children's agency: contributions from feminist and ethic of care theories to Sociology of Childhood. 5. Meanings of children's agency: when and where does agency begin and end? 6. Extending agency: the merit of relational approaches for Childhood Studies. Section II: Children as Actors in Research 7. Troubling children's voices in research. 8. Playing with socially constructed identity positions: accessing and reconstructing children's perspectives and positions through ethnographic fieldwork and creative workshops. Section III: Agency in Historical Perspective 9. Tracing and contextualising c.