Knowing children: theory and method in the study of childhood -- What is a child?: Making meaning of children and childhood -- Global childhoods: children as objects of national and global concern -- The convention on the rights of the child and the construction of the normative global child -- The habitus of childhood: home, school, work -- Children and disaster: 'child soldiers' and orphans -- The child and the nation: case studies in the persecution and forced removal of children by the state -- The value of children -- Future children: identity and perfectibility.