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In his recent State of the Union address, President Donald Trump talked about the scourge of gangs in the United States and the ongoing measures to eliminate them. Accounts of turf wars, members’ loyalties, and peer-on-peer violence ring disturbingly familiar, but they now extend into previously unchartered territory: cyberspace, explains a Rutgers University–Camden doctoral student…. continue reading

Dr. Dan Cook is co-editor of the recently published Reimagining Childhood Studies (London: Bloomsbury) which has chapters by, among others, Sarada Balagopalan, Stephen Bernardini, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, David Oswell, Kristen Cheney, Jo Boyden and Jason Hart.

In this essay, Dr. Cairns considers the implications of assessing garden pedagogies, arguing that a rhetoric of effects assumes an essentialist conception of the child-as-educational-output and bolsters a neoliberal vision of social change rooted in personal transformation. Drawing from ethnographic research with youth gardens in Toronto, Ontario, and Camden, New Jersey, she highlights contextualized experiences… continue reading

Michelle Lyttle Storrod, Childhood Studies PhD Student, coauthored an article for The Conversation entitled “Youth violence: rise could be linked to British people’s growing distrust of authority.  Read the full article here.

The mire of its own construction? Childhood studies and the “crisis” at the Mexico-U.S. border  by Dr. Dan Cook The “zero tolerance” policy of the US President Donald Trump Administration forcefully separated children from parents/guardians as they attempted to enter the United States at the Mexico border beginning in the spring of 2018. It was… continue reading

Dr. Kate Cairns has a new coauthored article in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Read the full article here.