Contributions and Limits of the ‘Childhood Studies’ for the research of the children’s agency in Latin America
Human Rights for Children and Youth
ISBN: 978-1-78973-048-7, eISBN: 978-1-78973-047-0
Publication date: 7 October 2019
Abstract
This paper recovers some theoretical elements of the sociology of childhood in the Anglo-Saxon field, to discuss their contributions, scopes and limits about child agency in children living in poor and urban contexts, in Latin America. The objective is to contribute to the debates within the field of childhood from a sociological perspective that accentuate the capacity of action and resistance of children even in the framework of structural restrictions, without assuming a decontextualized and ideal approach about the agency.
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Fatyass, R. (2019), "Contributions and Limits of the ‘Childhood Studies’ for the research of the children’s agency in Latin America", Human Rights for Children and Youth (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Vol. 24), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 133-149. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1537-466120190000024007
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
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