Human agency is considered a key factor in determining how individuals and society
respond to environmental change. This article synthesizes knowledge on agency, capacity …

▪ Abstract This review presents a critique of the academic and welfare literature on street
children in developing countries, with supporting evidence from studies of homelessness in …

This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's
agency. Through an interdisciplinary synthesis combining social theory, social policy and …

Over the last decade," youth" has become increasingly central to policy, development, media
and public debates and conflicts across the world–whether as an ideological symbol, social …

In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in
modern society. He critically examines' the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering …

In this article, I explore the lessons that the anthropological debates of the 1980s about
writing culture might have for contemporary childhood research within anthropology and the …

It is with some reticence that I write these comments on the 'the ladder of children's
participation'for this metaphor was introduced by me long ago in order to problematise an …

In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have
played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they …

The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in
which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural …

In this article, we first provide evidence that Scandinavian contributions to stakeholder theory
over the past 50 years play a much larger role in its development than is presently …