Exploring Agency in Children and Youth: Expressions and Constraints

A critical exploration of how young people come to have agency in the world.

In this critical study, readers are asked to consider how children and youth are constrained by social, cultural, political, and economic forces and how they overcome these to exercise their agency. This volume discusses issues such as the place of institutional and residential care, children as the subjects of academic research, and the voice of children and youth in the justice system, particularly that of Indige...