Rethinking Children as Consumers

Cyndy Hawkins

ISBN 10: 1138832448 / ISBN 13: 9781138832442

Published by Routledge 2016-09-02, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Children as Consumers
• Publisher: Routledge 2016-09-02
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138832448
• ISBN 13: 9781138832442
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Children are significant consumers of services such as health, welfare, educational institutions and the environment. Alongside this, the marketization of childhood means that children are exposed to advertising and marketing through a wide range of media on a daily basis.

Examining key debates on children’s power, status and citizenship issues, it considers the wider implications of how consumerism impacts on children‘s health, well-being and life chances. This timely book explores childhood and consumerism through four key strands:

• children as consumers of services;
• children as consumers of space;
• the link between citizenship and consumption;
• the influences of the marketization of childhood.

Rethinking Children as Consumers will be essential reading for students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers who are interested in the topic of consumerism across early childhood, childhood, youth and society.

About the Author

Cyndy Hawkins is Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Education Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK.