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Child Abuse Review

Wells, Karen (2019) ‘I’m here as a social worker’: immigration status issues and safeguarding children in Private Fostering arrangements in the UK. Child Abuse Review 28 (4), pp. 273-286. ISSN 0952-9136.

Childhood

Wells, Karen (2005) Strange practices: children's discourses on transgressive unknowns in urban public space. Childhood 12 (4), pp. 495-506. ISSN 0907-5682.

Children & Society

Wasiuzzaman, S. and Wells, Karen (2010) Assembling webs of support: child domestic workers in India. Children & Society 24 (4), pp. 282-292. ISSN 1099-0860.

Children and Society

Wells, Karen (2009) Heather Montgomery. An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children’s Lives, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 281 pp. [Book Review]

Children's Geographies

Wells, Karen (2024) Generation and gender: theorising social reproduction in rural West Africa. Children's Geographies , ISSN 1473-3285.

Wells, Karen (2014) Children, youth, and subjectivity. Children's Geographies 12 (3), pp. 263-267. ISSN 1473-3285.

Wells, Karen (2014) Marching to be somebody: a governmentality analysis of online cadet recruitment. Children's Geographies 12 (3), pp. 339-353. ISSN 1473-3285.

Wells, Karen (2011) The strength of weak ties: the social networks of young separated asylum seekers and refugees in London. Children's Geographies 9 (3/4), pp. 319-329. ISSN 1473-3285.

Wells, Karen (2008) Pam Nilan and Carles Feixa (eds), Global Youth? Hybrid identities, plural worlds. New York and London: Routledge, 2006, 218 pp. [Book Review]

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Wells, Karen (2007) Jennifer Ritterhhouse. Growing up Jim Crow: How black and white Southern children learned race. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, 2006, xii + 306 pp. [Book Review]

Wells, Karen and Watson, S. (2005) A politics of resentment: shopkeepers in a London neighbourhood. Ethnic and Racial Studies 28 (2), pp. 261-277. ISSN 0141-9870.

Wells, Karen (2005) Annette Lareau Unequal Childhoods: class, race and family life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xii + 331 pp. [Book Review]

Global Studies of Childhood

Wells, Karen (2011) The politics of life: governing childhood. Global Studies of Childhood 1 (1), pp. 15-25. ISSN 2043-6106.

Journal of Children and Media

Wells, Karen (2010) Child-saving or child rights: depictions of children in international NGO campaigns on conflict. Journal of Children and Media 2 (3), pp. 235-250. ISSN 1748-2798.

Journal of Consumer Culture

Wells, Karen (2002) Reconfiguring the radical other: urban children's consumption practices and the nature/culture divide. Journal of Consumer Culture 2 (3), pp. 291-315. ISSN 1469-5405.

Oxford Bibliographies: Childhood Studies

Wells, Karen (2012) Children and violence. Oxford Bibliographies: Childhood Studies ,

Social & Cultural Geography

Watson, S. and Wells, Karen (2005) Spaces of nostalgia: the hollowing out of a London market. Social & Cultural Geography 6 (1), pp. 17-30. ISSN 1464-9365.

Social and Cultural Geography

Wells, Karen and Bailey, Ain (2020) Sound art and the making of public space. Social and Cultural Geography 21 (8), pp. 1083-1102. ISSN 14701197.

Sociology Lens

Wells, Karen (2023) Docudrama and the agential child: treading a path between melodrama and National Geographic. Sociology Lens , ISSN 2832-5796. (Submitted)

Space and Culture

Wells, Karen (2007) Symbolic capital and material inequalities: memorializing class and "Race" in the multicultural city. Space and Culture 10 (2), pp. 195-206. ISSN 1206-3312.

Wells, Karen (2007) The material and visual cultures of cities. Space and Culture 10 (2), pp. 136-144. ISSN 1206-3312.

The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

Wells, Karen (2008) Invisible Hands: Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe. Beverly Carolease Grier. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 2006. xii + 284 pp. [Book Review]

Visual Communication

Wells, Karen (2013) The melodrama of being a child: NGO representations of poverty. Visual Communication 12 (3), pp. 277-293. ISSN 1470-3572.

Wells, Karen (2007) Narratives of liberation and narratives of innocent suffering: the rhetorical uses of images of Iraqi children in the British press. Visual Communication 6 (1), pp. 55-71. ISSN 1470-3572.

Wells, Karen (2007) Roxanne Varzi, Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolutionary Iran. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 290 pp. [Book Review]

Visual Studies

Wells, Karen (2007) Diversity without difference: modelling 'the real' in the social aesthetic of a London multicultural school. Visual Studies 22 (3), pp. 270-282. ISSN 1472-586X.