This book is a very welcome addition to the critical literature in Childhood Studies, timely in the questions raised and insights provided. Disruption, dialogue and descent are core, lending an authoritative focus to re-thinking the field to a more outward looking stance, scaling up and confident assertion of its contribution to knowledge. A thorough and highly engaging read that I will have as core reading for my students. * Dympna Devine, Full Professor and Head of Education, University College Dublin, Ireland * In recent years, the excitement and possibility that characterized the emergence of the new childhood studies in the 1990s have largely been replaced by stagnant frameworks, self-referential methodologies, and an often celebratory focus on the figure of the agentic child. Reimagining Childhood Studies diagnoses and offers multiple ways out of this academic mid-life crisis. A provocative and forward-looking response to big questions from a range of disciplines, this book is a must-read for every scholar researching with and about young people in the twenty-first century. * Kristine Alexander, Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada * This is a genuinely important volume. Transdisciplinary in its reach and ambitious in its breadth, it challenges the reader to think anew on topics from materiality to agency and children's rights. Reimagining Childhood Studies signals a maturing field of study, and is essential reading not only for scholars of childhood, but for all those interested in new thinking on the structure societies and social relations. * Sharon Bessell, Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University, Australia * Reimagining Childhood Studies revisits key debates while charting a more complex and nuanced future for childhood studies. It raises rarely asked questions and puts forward perspectives that seem to be marginal within the current debates in the field. By bringing together interdisciplinary approaches and conceptual lenses, the book is replete with innovative ideas that postgraduate students and researchers of childhood will certainly engage with for decades to come. * Tatek Abebe, Professor of Childhood Studies, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, Norway *
