Focusing on emotional shifts in childhood ideals and practices over the past two centuries,
this chapter seeks to understand child subjecthood, the instrumentalization of children's …

The rapid emergence and consolidation of the history of emotions has already demonstrated
the usefulness of the field of study in upending established historical narratives. While a …

This article explores recent scholarship on the history of education in the British Empire, with
a particular focus on the imperial origins of mass education. Though universal and …

Happiness in World History traces ideas and experiences of happiness from early stages in
human history, to the maturation of agricultural societies and their religious and …

In this major new study, James F. Stark provides the first historical account of the most
dominant ideas, practices, and material cultures associated with anti-ageing and …

Temporalizing Childhood: A Conversation with Erica Burman, Stephanie Olsen, Spyros
Spyrou, and Hanne Warming Page 1 DECEMBER 2021 59 Vol. 46 No. 4 JOURNAL OF …

Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young.
Yet how has this association come to be so strong, and why does it have so much …

Following the cinema release of The Hunger Games, a controversy erupted on social media.
Some readers of Suzanne Collins's novel registered their dismay at the casting of a young …

In January 2008 a new research center was inaugurated at the Max Planck Institute for
Human Development in Berlin. Under the guiding assumption that emotions matter to and in …

Over the last several years, and while working on our co-authored book chapter “Emotions
and the Global Politics of Childhood,” we have felt increasingly frustrated with the concept of …