Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development

Tatek Abebe is a Professor of Childhood Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he teaches postgraduate courses on cultural epistemologies of childhood, development, global south childhoods and youth, participatory methodologies and ethics. His ethnographic research examines how young people are affected by and shape the political-economic environment they inhabit, with an emphasis on their activism, inter-generational relationships, care, livelihoods, labouring and learning.

Anandini Dar is Associate Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University (BMU). She is the co-founder and co-convener of the Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (CCYSC), and serves as the advisory board member of The Childism Institute, at the Rutgers University, USA. She also serves on the international editorial board of the journal Children's Geographies, Taylor & Francis, and is the Series Editor of Studies in Childhood and Youth for Palgrave Macmillan. Dr. Dar's areas of research intersect childhood studies, development studies, sociology, education, and feminist studies. She has published on the topics of children's rights, politics, migration, de-colonialism, and youth.

Karen Wells is a Professor of International Development and Childhood Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She has over twenty years of experience in research on the intersection between international political economy and socio-cultural fields in the formation of childhood. She has published widely on this research.