Developments

<p>How does developmental psychology connect with (what used to be called) the developing world? What do cultural representations indicate about the contemporary politics of childhood? How is concern about child sexual exploitation linked to wider securitization anxieties? In other words: what is the political economy of childhood and how is this affectively organized? This new edition of <i>Developments: Child Image Nation</i> fully updated is a key conceptual intervention and resource reflecting further on the contexts and frameworks that tie children to national and international agendas.</p><p>A companion volume to Burman’s <i>Deconstructing Developmental Psychology</i> (third edition 2017) this volume helps explain why questions around children and childhood including their safety welfare their interests abilities sexualities and their violence have so preoccupied the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries showing how the frames for these concerns have extended beyond their Euro-US contexts of origination. In this completely revised edition Burman explores changing debates and contexts offering resources for interpreting continuities and shifts in the complex terrain connecting children and development. Through reflection on an increasingly globalised marketised world that prolongs previous colonial and gendered dynamics in new and even more insidious ways <i>Developments </i>analyses the conceptual paradigms shaping how we think about and work with children and recommends strategies for changing them. Drawing in particular on feminist and post-development literatures as well as original and detailed engagement with social theory it illustrates how and why reconceptualising notions of individual and human development including those informing models of children’s rights and interests is needed to foster more just and equitable forms of professional practice with children and their families.</p><p>Burman offers an important contribution to a set of urgent debates engaging theory and method policy and practice across all the disciplines that work with or lay claim to children’s interests. A persuasive set of arguments about childhood culture and professional practice <i>Developments</i> is an invaluable resource to teachers and students in psychology childhood studies and education as well as researchers in gender studies.</p>