Prout, Alan. (2008) “Culture-Nature and the Construction of the Child.”

ARGUMENT – Prout traces how childhood has been constructed/understood historically and how this coalesced into the field of Childhood Studies.  The nature-culture debate that has been ongoing for over a century is a false dichotomy and we must conceive of childhood in a more complex way.  Draws on Actor-Network theory to suggest that childhood is … Continue reading →