Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth

Taylor & Francis

Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and YouthGlobal Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Nadia von Benzon, Catherine Wilkinson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367729165, 978-0367729165\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the alternative experiences of children and young people whose everyday lives contradict ideas and ideals of normalcy from the local to the global context. \n\nPresenting empirical research and conceptual interventions from a variety of international contexts, this book seeks to contribute to understandings of alterity, agency and everyday precarity. The young lives foregrounded in this volume include the experiences of transnational families, children in ethnic minority communities, street-living young people, disabled children, child soldiers, victims of abuse, politically active young people, working children and those engaging with alternative education. By exploring other ways of being, doing, and.