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Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource extraction. Yet on streets everywhere,...
To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty...
To Be Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
The influence of professional, adult sport on youth sport is now a global concern. Children are involved in high-stakes competitive sport at national and international levels at an increasingly young age. In addition, the use of sport as a medium for positive youth development by governments and...
To Be Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book is situated at the intersection between children’s literature studies and childhood studies. In this provocative book, Christine Wilkie-Stibbs juxtaposes the narratives of literary and actual children/young adults to explore how Western culture has imagined...
To Be Published September 1st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Critical Youth Studies
Unlike as with previous generations, diversity and multiculturalism are engrained in the lives of today’s urban youth. Within their culturally diverse urban environments, young people from different backgrounds now routinely encounter one another in their everyday lives and negotiate and contest...
To Be Published October 22nd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Critical Youth Studies
Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines. Unlike literature that tends to discuss youth research at an abstracted...
To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
The arts are often sought as a way of helping troubled youth. Youth, Arts and Education: Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect tells a different story about art and disadvantaged young people. Based on transnational, empirical research into youth, arts and social disadvantage, Youth, Arts and...
To Be Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
As sport has become more intense, professional and commercialized so have the debates grown about what constitutes acceptable behaviour and fair play, and how to encourage and develop ‘good’ sporting behaviour, particularly in children and young people. This book explores the nature and function of...
To Be Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Sport, physical activity and play are key constituents of social life, impacting such diverse fields as healthcare, education and criminal justice. Over the past decade, governments around the world have begun to place physical activity at the heart of social policy, providing increased...
To Be Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
To Be Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
