Book Interviews

Interview with Sarada Balagopalan, John Wall, and Karen Wells about their edited collection, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies
10 December 2023

Our members, Prof. John Wall (Rutgers University, US) and Prof. Karen Wells (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), along with their co-editor Prof. Sarada Balagopalan (Rutgers University, US), talk about their edited collection, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Interview with Deevia Bhana, Yuwei Xu, and Vina Adriany about their edited collection, Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education
2 December 2023

Our members, Prof. Deevia Bhana (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) and Dr. Yuwei Xu (University of Nottingham, U.K.), as well as their co-editor Prof. Vina Adriany (Universitas Pendidikan, Indonesia), talk about their edited collection, Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts (Routledge, 2023).

Interview with J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents about their edited collection, Children, Childhoods, and Global Politics
25 November 2023

Our members, Prof. J. Marshall Beier (McMaster University, Canada) and Dr. Helen Berents (Griffith University, Australia), talk about their edited collection, Children, Childhoods, and Global Politics (Bristol University Press, 2023).

Interview with Kelley Fong about her book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services
18 November 2023

Our member, Dr. Kelley Fong (University of California, Irvine, US), talks about her new book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (Princeton University Press, 2023).

Interview with Manfred Liebel about his book, Childhoods of the Global South: Children’s Rights and Resistance
12 November 2023

Our member, Dr. Manfred Liebel (Germany), talks about his new book (written with Rebecca Budde, Urszula Markowska-Manista, and Philip Meade), Childhoods of the Global South: Children’s Rights and Resistance (Policy Press, 2023).

Interview with Utsa Mukherjee about his edited collection, Childhoods & Leisure: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues
5 November 2023

Our member, Dr. Utsa Mukherjee (Brunel University London, UK), talks about his edited collection, Childhoods & Leisure: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

Interview with Kristine Alexander and Simon Sleight about their edited collection, A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age
29 October 2023

Our members, Dr. Kristine Alexander (University of Lethbridge, Canada) and Dr. Simon Sleight (King's College London, UK), talk about their edited collection, A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Interview with Rachel Berman, Patrizia Albanese, and Xiaobei Chen about their edited collection, Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth
22 October 2023

Our members, Profs. Rachel Berman and Patrizia Albanese (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada), along with their co-editor Prof. Xiaobei Chen (Carleton University, Canada), talk about their new collection, Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth (Emerald, 2023).

Interview with Francesca Meloni about her book, Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality
14 October 2023

Our member, Dr. Francesca Meloni (Kings College London, UK), talks about her new book, Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality (Rutgers University Press, 2023).

Interview with Tisdall, Davis, Fry, Konstantoni, Kustatscher, Maternowska, and Weiner about their edited textbook, Critical Childhood Studies: Global Perspectives
1 October 2023

Our members, Prof. Kay Tisdall and Dr. Marlies Kustatscher, talk about their new textbook, co-edited with Prof. Debi Fry, Dr. Kristina Konstantoni, Prof. Kati Maternowska, Ms. Laura Weiner (all from the University of Edinburgh, UK), and Prof. John Davis (University of Strathclyde, UK), Critical Childhood Studies: Global Perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).