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Book launch for Prof Wendy Sims-Schouten

28 January 2025

Book Launch, UCL Press book: Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices Perspectives from the past and present Wendy Sims-Schouten (Author), February 2025!

Cover of the Revisiting Childhood Resilience through Marginalised and Displaced Voices by Prof Wendy Sims-Schouten

Despite many decades of research into childhood resilience, it remains a contentious area with much still left to be resolved. Key terms are poorly defined, positioning marginalised and displaced children as objects rather than co-producers of knowledge. Research and practice frame resilience through individualised models of health and abnormality. These models emphasise individual responsibility over systemic oppression, ignoring personal marginalised voices and experiences, and the contribution of appropriate needs-based assistance. Resilience needs rethinking.  Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices uses an interdisciplinary approach to challenge current childhood resilience research and practice. The culmination of ten years of research and publications around childhood resilience, the book draws upon data collected from and co-produced with children, young people and adults from marginalised, disadvantaged and displaced communities.

https://uclpress.co.uk/book/revisiting-childhood-resilience-through-marginalised-and-displaced-voices/