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It is at once highly readable and engaging, but most importantly, the introduction and overall volume provides real opportunities and possibilities to the researcher to begin working in this reimagined field of scholarship. Agency is relevant in a number of the essays in the publication (Balagopalan, Bernardini, Cook, Kontovourki and Theodorou), but it is present in a revised form in all cases. The book is divided into four parts, each with three chapters contained: spatial and temporal challenges and interventions; rethinking materiality and political economy; decentring the agentic subject of childhood studies; and, engagements with political subjects and subjectivities. [Extracted from the article]

Allchin, Raymond and Norman Hammond (revised and updated by Warwick Ball with Norman Hammond):. xxxiii, 711 pp. The investigation of the surroundings of the minaret of Jam by David Thomas and his team (p. 517) has also revealed a courtyard building adjacent to the minaret, again with the great probability of it being its associated mosque. The authors note that this building, along with the minaret of Bahramshah, have both been interpreted as victory towers (as has the minaret of Jam). [Extracted from the article]

The authors examine areas of food resistance on the part children and the food adjustment steps taken by canteen chefs and schools to help children eat the food provided. Boni describes the family food practices in relation to de Certeau's (1984) "strategies" and "tactics". This is a fascinating publication that explores children's lives and food practices from a variety of cross-disciplinary perspectives. [Extracted from the article]