Through a conceptual analysis of sexual agency, I consider the limitations and distortions of
what we typically recognize as agency and whom we recognize as agents. I argue that the …

SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable
knowledge by publishing innovative and high-quality research and teaching content. Today …

The 'black box problem'is a long-standing talking point in debates about artificial intelligence
(AI). This is a significant point of tension between ethicists, programmers, clinicians and …

This essay outlines how Black placemaking, a sociological framework used to study Black
residents in urban contexts, might be used to study Black students' experiences at …

In the context of the 'iFuture'research project, 341 18-year-old Sardinian students were
asked to write an essay in which they imagined themselves at 90 and described what their …

Background: Research has widely documented how, even in conditions of extreme poverty,
deprivation, or oppression, children are competent and situated actors, capable of actively …

Post-structuralist youth studies theorists have argued for nuanced perspectives on agency
that are not reliant on an assumption of subjects as rational and internally coherent …

Steven Threadgold's study represents the first comprehensive engagement of Pierre
Bourdieu's influential sociology with affect theory. With empirical research and examples …

We describe an ontological approach to childhood studies that we refer to as Childhood
Ethics. This involves an interdisciplinary hermeneutic orientation towards examining the …

The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young
people and how social class is made and remade. This book invokes a Bourdieusian spirit …