Future of Childhood Studies, The

The contributions approach the question of how childhood studies needs to, and might, develop in the future by focusing on: • the social and cultural character of childhood in relation to the generational order – change or continuity? • the social construction of childhood and children`s agency – critical challenges or critiques? • the role of new technologies in the cultural and social construction of childhood – revolution or intensification? • interdisciplinarity – new knowledge or just more knowledge? • synthesing social theory, social policy and empirical findings of social science research – conformism or expansion? • Participation and children’s rights – technologies of the self or routes to (roots of) politicization? Finally, the book considers whether alternative conceptualisations of children and childhood are needed in late modernity/late capitalism.