Childhoods and the global polycrisis: New directions for critical childhood studies

The world we live in is confronted with multiple crise. These crises affect children disproportionately, increasingly with more and more detrimental consequences for their lives and well-being.

Join the global launch of the Critical Childhood Studies Centre at UCL, as keynote speakers and respondents reflect on these challenges and possible new directions for the further development of critical childhood studies.

Speaker

• Keynote - Ann Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial Studies in the Thomas Coram Research Unit and a member of the Critical Childhood Studies Centre at UCL. Her research focuses on the ways in which psychological experiences and social processes are linked and intersectional. It explores racialised and gendered identities, mixed-parentage, masculinities, consumption, motherhood, families, migration and transnational families.
• Respondent - Nara Milanich is Professor of Latin American History at Barnard College, Columbia University, and directs the Center for Mexico and Central America. She researches the history of kinship, childhood, reproduction, gender, and law in Latin America.
• Respondent - Lucia Rabello de Casto is Professor of Childhood and Youth at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her research explores children’s and young people’s social and political participation through decolonial epistemologies.
• Respondent - Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology and Acting Deputy Dean of the School of Humanities, Social and Education Sciences at European University Cyprus. His work explores, among others, the political lives of children, youth activism and more recently surveillance capitalism. He also maintains an active interest in questions around knowledge production in childhood studies.

This online event will be particularly useful for researchers and policymakers.

Links

• Critical Childhood Studies Centre
• Social Research Institute

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Mat Wright for UCL.