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Paul Bywaters
Professor of Social Work,
Child and Family Research,
CTEHR, Richard Crossman Building,
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences,
Coventry University,
Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB
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Subject: FW: Call for papers ESA 2017

Dear colleagues

Please see details for Call for papers for Childhood stream at this years ESA conference in Athens. This might be of interest to some. Deadline approaching fast (Feb 15th) so don’t forget to submit your abstract soon.
http://www.europeansociology.org/download/esa2017_CFPs.pdf




CALL FOR PAPERS



(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities



13th Conference of the European Sociological Association



www.esa13thconference.eu<http://www.esa13thconference.eu>

29 August – 1 September 2017 Athens, Greece Abstract

deadline: 15th February



RN04 - Sociology of Children and Childhood

Coordinators: Nigel Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Griet Roets, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium (Flanders) [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> The challenges of life in contemporary Europe are particularly acute for children. They are differentially affected by poverty and inequality, and by cuts in public services. The young are especially vulnerable to racial hatred, exclusion and prejudice, and children have been a major focus of the refugee crisis and the public discourse surrounding that. At the same time children are routinely excluded from political decisions that fundamentally affect their future and their communities, such as referendums on national independence. The aim of our network is to advance the understanding of children and childhood in contemporary society, within a paradigm that recognises both children’s individual and collective agency and the importance of childhood in social structure. We aim further, to bring those understandings into the mainstream of sociological theory, on the basis that to understand childhood properly is to understand society differently. To that end we invite submissions for papers that explore (a) the theoretical under-standing of childhood and (b) all aspects of empirical work that extend our knowledge and understanding of children’s lives. We are particularly keen to include work that focuses on children’s responses to poverty, to children as refugees and migrants, children’s identities, children as workers, children’s citizenship in everyday life, and fragmented (or dislocated) childhoods. For this conference we are also keen to make connections with those working on these issues in Greece, and we aim to devote one or more of our sessions to such contacts.

RN04_a: Sociology of Children and Childhood (General Session)

N04_b: Children as refugees and migrants

RN04_c: Children, poverty and austerity

RN04_d: Children’s everyday lives

RN04_e: Children’s identities

RN04_f: Children’s citizenship

RN04_g: Children’s use of new media

RN04_h: Children and intergenerational relations

RN04_i: New methodologies and ethics of research with children

RN04_j: New theories for understanding childhood 30



RN04_KS: Fragmented and dislocated childhoods (Arranged RN Keynote Session) How do the disruptions to children’s lives in contemporary Europe challenge our thinking about childhood in policy and practice?







SP11 - Questioning Boundaries of Age and Place: Child Refugees in an Uncertain Europe
Coordinator: Nigel Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
This session invites submissions that contribute to answering the broad question: What can we learn from the experiences of child refugees and responses to child refugees about the position of children in Europe? We hope that this session will bring together scholarship relating to the general structural position of children and childhood in the context of specific questions raised by the situations of child refugees and migrants. Children are often seen as appendages of their families and through a future orientation. The refugee crisis puts into sharp relief what scholars in childhood studies have been arguing for some time now – that children hold a key position in society in the here and now, bounded by social structures but also shaped by children’s own agency. When children are trying to cross geographical boundaries, especially when they do so without their parents, this highlights the ambiguities in the operation of age boundaries and perceptions of entitlement, and the relationship between the national and the transnational. The implications of this crisis for our understanding of children’s position, in a Europe that appears to be collapsing from within as well as facing both real and imagined threats from without, will be a focus of this semi-plenary.


Looking forward to receiving many submissions from a diversity of European countries!

Nigel and Griet


Prof. Dr. Griet Roets
Vakgroep Sociaal Werk en Sociale Pedagogiek - Universiteit Gent
Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy – Ghent University
Henri Dunantlaan 2
9000 Gent
Tel. 09 264 62 93


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