Sims-Schouten, Professor Wendy;
(2025)
Revisiting childhood resilience through marginalised and displaced voices: perspectives from the past and present.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
Despite many decades of research into childhood resilience, it remains a contentious area with much still left to be resolved. Key terms are poorly defined, positioning marginalised and displaced children as objects rather than co-producers of knowledge. Research and practice frame resilience through individualised models of health and abnormality. These models emphasise individual responsibility over systemic oppression, ignoring personal marginalised voices and experiences, and the contribution of appropriate needs-based assistance. Resilience needs rethinking. Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices uses an interdisciplinary approach to challenge current childhood resilience research and practice. The culmination of ten years of research and publications around childhood resilience, the book draws upon data collected from and co-produced with children, young people and adults from marginalised, disadvantaged and displaced communities. In so doing, it highlights the transformative potential of stories told by marginalised and displaced children, past and present. When these narratives are prioritised, they disrupt, counter and draw critical attention to coping strategies in light of adversity and oppression, to inform creative research and policymaking. Centralising the voices of care leavers, young people who are bullied, members from minority ethnic communities and former migrants/refugees, among others, Wendy Sims-Schouten shines a light on 150 years of marginalised voices and experiences in relation to resilience.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Revisiting childhood resilience through marginalised and displaced voices: perspectives from the past and present |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800087750 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800087750 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087750 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2025 Figures © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third- party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY- NC 4.0), https://creative commons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non- commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Sims-Schouten, W. 2025. Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices: Perspectives from the past and present. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087750 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | critical realism, marginalised children, displaced children, discrimination, resistance, childhood resilience |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Arts and Sciences (BASc) |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202815 |
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