Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Structure of the book; Note; References; PART I: Stigma; 2. Childhood disability and clothing: (un)dressing debates; Chapter summary; Introduction; Children and clothing; Childhood disability; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. 'They should have stayed': blaming street children and disruption of the intergenerational contract; Chapter summary; Introduction; Research context and methodology

Street-living children and intergenerational contracts of responsibilityDirty bad-boys: why street children struggle for employment; Relationships of reciprocity on the street; Who is responsible for street children?; Conclusion; A note of acknowledgement; Notes; References; 4. Subverting neighbourhood normalcy and the impacts on child wellbeing in Malta; Chapter summary; Introduction; Methodology; Findings: how children's wellbeing may differ according to the neighbourhood social processes and contextual norms in relation to their parents' marital status.; Conclusion; References

5. 'Bad children': international stigmatisation of children trained to kill during war and armed conflictChapter summary; Introduction; The images of wartime initiation; Child soldiers; The profile and motivations of child soldiers; Conclusion; Notes; References; PART II: Work, education and activism; 6. Other(ed) childhoods: supplementary schools and the politics of learning; Chapter summary; Introduction: going for gold...; What are supplementary schools?; The supplementary 'other'; The differences within...; Conclusion: other(ed) childhoods; References

7. Notan'other' childhood: child labour laws, working children and childhood in BoliviaChapter summary; Introduction; Background; Laws, standards and childhood; Responsible childhood; Political childhood; Conclusion; Notes; References; 8. Unschooling and the simultaneous development and mitigation of 'otherness' amongst home-schooling families; Chapter summary; Introduction; Home educating, alterity and isolation; Researching unschooling blogs; Unschooling childhood as 'other'; Mother-child relationship; Children's agency; Unschooling as identity and mitigating otherness; Conclusion; Notes

This book explores the alternative experiences of children and young people whose everyday lives contradict ideas and ideals of normalcy from the local to the global context. Presenting empirical research and conceptual interventions from a variety of international contexts, this book seeks to contribute to understandings of alterity, agency and everyday precarity. The young lives foregrounded in this volume include the experiences of transnational families, children in ethnic minority communities, street-living young people, disabled children, child soldiers, victims of abuse, politically active young people, working children and those engaging with alternative education. By exploring 'other' ways of being, doing, and thinking about childhood, this book addresses questions around what it is to be a child and what it is to be marginalised in society. The narratives explore the everydayness and the mundanity of difference as they are experienced through social structures and relationships, simultaneously recognizing and critiquing notions of agency and power. This book, including a discussion resource for teaching or peer reading groups, will appeal to academics, students and researchers across subject disciplines including Human Geography, Children's Geography, Social Care and Childhood Studies.

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