Research Catalog

Title

Environment in the lives of children and families : perspectives from India and the UK / Ann Phoenix, Janet Boddy, Catherine Walker, Uma Vennam.

Author

Phoenix, Ann

Publication

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, USA : Policy Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Boddy, Janet, 1969-
• Walker, Catherine
• Vennam, Uma

Description

x, 172 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"How do environmental policies link to dynamic and relational family practices for children and parents? This Policy Press Short presents innovative cross-national research into how 'environment' is understood and negotiated within families, and how this plays out in everyday lives. Based on an ESRC study that involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different contexts, this book illuminates how environmental practices are negotiated within families, and how they relate to values, identities and society. In doing so, it contributes to understanding of the ways in which families and childhood are constructed as sites for intervention in climate change debates. In an area that is increasingly of concern to governments, NGOs and the general public, this timely research is crucial for developing effective responses to climate change."

Series Statement

Policy Press shorts research

Uniform Title

Policy Press shorts. Research.

Subject

• Children and the environment > Great Britain
• Children and the environment > India
• Families > Great Britain
• Families > India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Everyday engagement with climate change -- Ways of understanding family practices across contexts -- Environmental affordances and the work of everyday family lives -- Environmental concerns, identities and practices -- Children are the future? Power, generation and environmental practices -- Negotiating environments in children's and families' everyday lives.

ISBN

• 9781447339199
• 1447339193

OCLC

• 979568285
• SCSB-10606746

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library