Focused reading list, Childhood and youth

Alexander, Kristine, “Agency and Emotion Work,” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 7, no. 2 (2015): 120-128.

Boddice, Rob and Mark Smith, Emotion, Sense, Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Gleason, Mona, “Avoiding the Agency Trap: Caveats for Historians of Children, Youth, and Education,” History of Education 45, no. 4 (2016): 446-459.

Maynes, M.J., “Age as a Category of Historical Analysis: History, Agency, and Narratives of Childhood,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 1: (2008): 114-124.

Maza, Sarah, “The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood,” AHR Exchange, The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 1261–1285, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa380 and responses by several historians of childhood and youth, including: Ishita Pande, “Is the History of Childhood Ready for the World? A Response to ‘The Kids Aren’t All Right’,” The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 1300–1305, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa383

Miller, Susan A., “Assent as Agency in the Early Years of the Children of the American Revolution,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 9, no. 1 (Winter 2016): 48-65.

Olsen, Stephanie, “Children’s Emotional Formations in Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, around the First World War,” Special Issue of Social and Cultural History: Young People and the World Wars: Materialities, Memories and Cultural Heritage, Kate Darian-Smith and Ana Carden-Coyne, eds, DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1658838 (Aug. 2019).

Sleight, Simon, “The city in the child: Colin Ward, urban becoming and the shift to experience,” in Catherine Burke and Ken Jones (eds), Education, Childhood and Anarchism. Talking Colin Ward. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2014, pp. 19-32.

Thomas, Lynn M. “Historicising Agency,” Gender & History 28, no. 2 (August 2016): 324-339

Vallgårda, K, K. Alexander and S. Olsen (2018), “Against Agency,” SHCY Blog, https://www.shcy.org/features/commentaries/against-agency/ 

Vallgårda, K, K. Alexander and S. Olsen, “Emotions and the Global Politics of Childhood,” in Stephanie Olsen (ed), Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History: National, Colonial and Global Perspectives. London: Palgrave, 2015.

Vallgårda, Karen and Katrine Rønsig Larsen, “Emotional Echoes: Young People, Divorce, and the Public Media, 1960–2000,” Journal of Social History, 2020, shaa030, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shaa030

Vuolanto, Ville, “Experience, Agency, and the Children in the Past: the Case of Roman Childhood,” in C. Laes and V. Vuolanto (eds), Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World. Ashgate, 2016, 11–24.