Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this book responds to political and media discourses that stigmatise 'unruly' youthful bodies, by combining the critical analysis of imagined and disciplined youthful bodies with a focus on young people's lived and performed, embodied subjectivities.

'...the book provides a rich and nuanced exposition of many issues that characterise contemporary concern about children and young people.' - Children & Society

Autorentext
CATHERINE ALEXANDER is Research Associate in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK NATALIE BEALE is Research Student in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK RACHEL COLLS is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham, UK DEREK COLQUHOUN is Professor of Urban Learning in the Institute of Learning, University of Hull, UK PAMELA DALE is Researcher based in the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, UK MYRIAM DENOV is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University, UK ELIZABETH GAGEN is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Hull, UK SARAH GROGAN is Professor of Health Psychology at Staffordshire University, UK MALCOLM HILL is Research Professor in the Glasgow School of Social Work, a joint School of the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, UK LOUISE HOLT is Lecturer in Human geography at the University of Reading, UK PETER HOPKINS is Lecturer in Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK KATHRIN HÖRSCHELMANN is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham, UK PETER KRAFTL is Lecturer in Human Geography at Leicester University, UK RUTH PANELLI is Reader in Human Geography at University College London, UK JO PIKE is Researcher in the Food Health and Education Research group in the Institute for Learning at the University of Hull, UK ELSPETH PROBYN is Research SA Chair& Professor of Gender&Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia. ELSBETH ROBSON is Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, Africa and Honorary Research Associate of the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK SUE RUDDICK is an Associate Professor in Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, Canada INBAL SOLOMON recently completed her Master's degree at the University of Ottawa, Canada GILL VALENTINE is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the Leeds Social Science Institute at the University of Leeds, UK LORRAINE VAN BLERK is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Reading, UK KAREN WELLS is Programme Director of International Childhood Studies at Birkbeck College, UK

Inhalt
Introduction: Contested Bodies of Children and Youth; K. Hörschelmann& R. Colls Children's Bodies: An Absent Presence; G. Valentine Part I: Imagining Bodies Femininity and Body Image: Promoting Positive Body Image in the 'Culture of Slenderness'; S. Grogan Mimesis and Alterity: Representations of Race in Children's Films; K. Wells Deviant Femininities: The Everyday Making and Unmaking of 'Criminal' Youth; C. Alexander How Do Children Taste? Young people and the production and consumption of food; E. Probyn Commentary: Imagining Bodies; S. Ruddick Part II: Disciplining Bodies Embodied Childhood in the Health Promoting School; J. Pike & D. Colquhoun Health Visiting in Anxious Times; P. Dale Contested Bodies of Asylum-seeking Children; P. Hopkins& M. Hill Children's Bodies Working and Caring in Sub-Saharan Africa; E. Robson Militarized Bodies: The Global Militarization of Children's Lives; I. Solomon & M. Denov Commentary: Disciplining Bodies; E. Gagen Part III: Performing Bodies Stigma, Health, Identity and Youth(ful) Bodies; N. Beale Embodying and Destabilising (dis)ability and Childhood; L. Holt Time for Bed! Children's Bed-time Practices, Routines and Affects; J. Horton & P. Kraftl AIDS, Mobility and Commercial Sex in Ethiopia: Implications for Policy; L. van Blerk Commentary: Performing Bodies and Contestation; R. Panelli