Book Interviews

Interview with Jill Duerr Berrick, Marit Skivenes, and Neil Gilbert about their edited collection, The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems
23 September 2023

Our members, Prof. Jill Duerr Berrick (U.C. Berkeley, US) and Prof. Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen, Norway), talk about their new volume, co-edited with Prof. Neil Gilbert (U.C. Berkeley, US), The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Interview with Alan Dettlaff about his book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System
13 August 2023

Our member, Prof. Alan Dettlaff (University of Houston, US), talks about his new book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Interview with Elizabeth Faulkner about her book, The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-trafficking Machine
17 July 2023

Our member, Dr Elizabeth Faulkner (Keele University, UK), talks about her new book, The Trafficking of Children: International Law, Modern Slavery, and the Anti-trafficking Machine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

Interview with Freeden Blume Oeur about his co-edited volume, Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism
30 July 2023

Our member, Prof. Freeden Blume Oeur (Tufts University, US), talks about his collection, co-edited with Prof. C. J. Pascoe (University of Oregon, US), Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism (New York University Press, 2023).

Interview with Felicity Jensz about her co-edited volume, Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
8 July 2023

Our member, Dr Felicity Jensz (University of Münster, Germany), talks about her collection, co-edited with Daniel Gerster (Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg, Germany), Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Interview with Felicity Jensz about her book Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910
18 June 2023

Our member, Dr Felicity Jensz (University of Münster, Germany), talks about her book, Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910 (Manchester University Press, 2022).

Interview with Franziska Fay about her book Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools
5 June 2023

Our member, Dr Franziska Fay (Johannes Gutenberg University Main, Germany), talks about her book, Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment and Piety in Zanzibar Schools (Rutgers University Press, 2021).

Interview with Catriona Ellis about her book, Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India
13 May 2023

Our member, Dr Catriona Ellis (University of Strathclyde, UK), talks about her new book, Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Interview with Jesica Siham Fernández about her book, Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship
6 May 2023

Our member, Dr Jesica Siham Fernández (Santa Clara University, US), talks about her book, Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship (NYU Press, 2021).

Interview with Rebecca Adami, Anna Kaldal, and Margareta Aspán about their edited collection, The Rights of the Child: Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges
1 May 2023

Our member, Rebecca Adami, along with her co-editors Anna Kaldal and Margareta Aspán (all at Stockholm University, Sweden), talk about their edited collection, The Rights of the Child: Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges (Brill, 2023).