This article examines the significance, in the lives of those who experienced out-of-home
care as children, of the archived records of their institutionalisation. The affective …

In recent decades, the history of childhood and history of education have gained status as
political concerns through the establishment of numerous truth commissions and inquiries …

and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology, and the happiness
industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology …

In this article, I name and describe the field of institutional justice, which comprises all forms
of child institutional abuse and neglect, related historical/policy wrongs, and responses to …

This paper presents the aims and findings of two research projects—Rights in Records by
Design and Indigenous Archiving and Cultural Safety—making particular reference to the …

The abuse of children in institutional settings is an issue of ongoing social, public, and
political concern internationally. While societal responses to historical abuse have been the …

Abstract Background The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in England
and Wales was the first major child abuse inquiry internationally to appoint survivors to a …

What do children have to do with the history of education? This might sound like a provoking
question–of course children are relevant to the history of education, and of course education …

Based on an oral history study that retrospectively explores the life histories of former
orphans in the city of Ghent (Belgium) after the Second World War, we analyse and critique …

In a culture of therapy, trauma talk is widespread. The incitement to speak, to articulate
suffering is pervasive. Contemporary norms of disclosure encourage the expression–rather …