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Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS)

Welcome to the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS) newsletter. This goes to those who have attended events organised by CPCS, and others who have expressed an interest in the work of the Centre.

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Ellie Lee, Director CPCS E.J.Lee@kent.ac.uk


New Directions for Parenting Culture Studies
This series of discussions will be held on Zoom through 2024 at 3pm and will highlight work by early and mid-career colleagues who have made use of ideas set out in Parenting Culture Studies within their work.

Parenting Culture and declining fertility rates (Wed 21 Feb 2024) – book your tickets

Intensive parenting, childhood independence and playing out.John Day, Lenore Skenazy as respondent (Weds 27 March)

The rise of ‘parenting policy’ and the fragmentation of the family. Ashley Frawley, Claude Martin as respondent (Weds 17 April)

The double bind of intensive parenting. Raquel Herrero-Arias (Weds 26 June)

Saving Brains? Early Childhood Interventions in the Global South. Gabriel Scheidecker (Weds 18 September)

Find out more here

Battle of Ideas 2023 – film of the debates now available!

We were delighted to be event partners again at this annual event, this time for the strand of discussions ‘Family Matters’. Watch the following debates:

Parenting Culture Studies (2nd Edition)
We are very pleased indeed to announce that a 2nd Edition of Parenting Culture Studies is now published!

In this edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends. Ten years after the initial volume’s publication, the authors once again examine how the main aspects of parenting have been established, explored, and critically evaluated.

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Family Life in the Time of COVID

This book features chapters from the international collaborators in the ICo-FACT project. Published by UCL Press, Open Access

Generations and Society

  • Kingstone, H. and Bristow, J. (eds) (2024) Studying Generations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Bristol University Press.Published in February 2024, Studying Generations explores the growing field of generational studies, providing a comprehensive overview of its strengths and limitations. With contributions from academics across a range of disciplines, the book showcases the concept’s interdisciplinary potential by applying a generational lens to fields including sociology, literature, history, psychology, media studies and politics.

Book series: Generations, Transitions and Social Change

This series provides a home for new work in generational studies. We welcome proposals on relevant topics, including (but not limited to):

  • education, intergenerational dialogue and the construction of knowledge;
  • the implication of demographic trends in global fertility rates, ageing and migration;
  • family change and intergenerational solidarity;
  • gender relations and gender roles across generations;
  • generational differences in the experience of work and relations between younger and older workers;
  • inequalities across generations;
  • generational differences and convergences in moral, political and religious attitudes and values;
  • the intersection of generation, gender, migration and culture in narratives of identity and belonging;
  • the differential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic within and between generations in the Global North and Global South;
  • generations and the future.

Get more information and proposal guidelines
To discuss submitting a proposal, please email Elisabetta Ruspini and Jennie BristowFind out the latest from the interdisciplinary Generations Network

After Choice: FASD and the ‘managed woman’
This project takes policies, guidance and healthcare practices about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) as its focus. It builds on previous research considering the ascendence of claims about the salience of the ‘precautionary principle’ for providing advice to women about alcohol and pregnancy. Read more about the project

Read and Listen On

A reminder of our YouTube channel, with recordings of events and other resources from the past decade.

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