Article type: Editorial
17 August 2016
Volume 41 Issue 3
Article type: Editorial
17 August 2016
Volume 41 Issue 3
Special Issue: Caring for Children Outside the Home – From Institutions to Nations
Affiliations
1 University of Adelaide
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Katie Barclay -
Katie Barclay1
Affiliations
1 University of Adelaide
Part of Special Series: Caring for Children Outside the Home – From Institutions to Nations
CITATION: Barclay K. (2016). Special Issue: Caring for Children Outside the Home – From Institutions to Nations. Children Australia, 41(3), 2038. doi.org/10.1017/cha.2016.25
Abstract
This special issue began its life in 2015 in a series of workshops funded by the University of Adelaide that ran under the theme ‘Dis/located Children: Children in/and Care’. The goal of the workshops was to take seriously the concept of ‘care’ as it applied to the lives of children. The workshops had a particular focus on childhoods that were in some sense beyond the normative, whether that was migrant or refugee children adapting to a new culture, children who lived outside the nuclear household, or children whose identities marked them as ‘different’. They were underpinned by developments in both childhood and emotions studies that seek to destabilise the ‘naturalness’ of both childhood and emotion by exploring the ways that both are contingent, shaped by culture, and situated in historical time (Davin,