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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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) 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) 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Book Review

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

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]

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]

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

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

Book Section

Wells, Karen and Muluneh, G. (2024) Language policy, development and translanguaging in Africa. In: Abebe, T. and Dar, A. and Wells, Karen (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development. London, UK & New York, U.S.: Routledge. ISBN 9780367740436. (In Press)

Balagopalan, S. and Wall, J. and Wells, Karen (2023) Introduction. In: Balagopalan, S. and Wall, J. and Wells, Karen (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350263840. (In Press)

Balagopalan, S. and Wall, J. and Wells, Karen (2023) Introduction to The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies. In: Balagopalan, S. and Wall, J. and Wells, Karen (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies. Bloomsbury Handbooks. London, UK: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9781350263840.

Wells, Karen (2023) Theorizing 'surplus populations' in racial capitalism through juvenile justice. In: Balagopalan, S. and Wall, J. and Wells, Karen (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350263840. (In Press)

Wells, Karen (2023) Theorizing ‘Surplus Populations’ in racial capitalism through juvenile justice. In: Balagopalan, S. and Wall, J. and Wells, Karen (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies. Bloomsbury Handbooks. London, UK: Bloomsbury, pp. 309-321. ISBN 9781350263840.

Wells, Karen (2017) Making young subjects: liminality and violence. In: Worth, N. and Dwyer, C. and Skelton, T. (eds.) Identities and Subjectivities. Geographies of Children and Young People 4. Singapore: Springer Singapore, pp. 215-230. ISBN 9789812870223.

Wells, Karen (2017) Globalising child circulation: the care of children who are privately fostered across international borders. In: Horton, J. and Pyer, M. (eds.) Children, Young People and Care. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 218-233. ISBN 9781138920880.

Wells, Karen (2017) Children’s experiences of sexual violence, psychological trauma, death, and injury in war. In: Harker, C. and Horschelmann, K. (eds.) Conflict, Violence, and Peace. Geographies of Children and Young People 11. Berlin, Germany: Springer, pp. 19-34. ISBN 9789812870377.

Wells, Karen (2016) Governing the global child. In: Ansell, N. and Klocker, N. and Skelton, T. (eds.) Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat. Geographies of Children and Young People 8. Berlin, Germany: Springer. ISBN 9789814585538.

Wells, Karen (2015) Violent lives and peaceful schools: NGO constructions of modern childhood and the role of the state. In: Parkes, J. (ed.) Gender Violence in Poverty Contexts: the Educational Challenge. Education, Poverty and International Development. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 168-182. ISBN 9780415712491.

Wells, Karen and Burman, E. and Montgomery, H. and Watson, A. (2014) Everyday violence and social recognition. In: Wells, Karen and Burman, E. and Montgomery, H. and Watson, A. (eds.) Childhood, Youth and Violence in Global Contexts. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9781137322593.

Wells, Karen (2013) Mobility and social reproduction: key issues for early childhood research in developing countries. In: O’Riordan, J. and Horgan, D. and Martin, S. (eds.) Early Childhoods in the Global South: Local and International Contexts. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, pp. 11-26. ISBN 9783034308793.

Wells, Karen (2012) Becoming a gendered subject: genital cutting, liminality and normative African girlhood. In: Imoh Twum-Danso, A. and Ame, R. (eds.) Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave. ISBN 9780230342323.

Wells, Karen (2012) Melancholic memorialisation: the ethical demands of grievable lives. In: Rose, G. and Tolia-Kelly, D.P. (eds.) Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Press, pp. 153-170. ISBN 9781409412229.

Wells, Karen (2012) The gaze of development after the cultural turn. In: Roseneil, Sasha and Frosh, Stephen (eds.) Social Research after the Cultural Turn. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 110-123. ISBN 9780230241589.

Wells, Karen (2012) Making gender and generation: between the local and the global in Africa. In: Twum-Danso Imoh, A. and Ame, R. (eds.) Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 143-159. ISBN 9780230342323.

Wells, Karen (2012) Melancholic memorialisation: the ethical demands of grievable lives. In: Tolia-Kelly, D.P. and Rose, G. (eds.) Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781409412229.

Wells, Karen (2009) Embodying englishness: whiteness, gender and class in the children's film 'The Secret Garden'. In: Carrol, R. and Helyer, R. (eds.) Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities. London, UK: Continuum. ISBN 9780826424648.

Wells, Karen (2009) Mimesis and alterity: representations of race in children's films. In: Horschelman, K. and Colls, R. (eds.) Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 53-67. ISBN 9780230201385.

Wells, Karen (2009) Children and international politics. In: Montgomery, H. and Keller, M. (eds.) Children and Young People's Worlds: Developing Frameworks for Integrated Practice. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press. ISBN 9781847423887.

Monograph

Wells, Karen (2002) Strangers in the city: the structure and significance of children's fears of urban spaces. Working Paper. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Conference or Workshop Item

Wells, Karen (2012) The political and geographical boundaries of identity and ethnicity. In: I-D The Boundaries of Identity, 19 Mar 2012, Birkbeck, University of London. (Unpublished)

Wells, Karen (2011) Whose children: child protection in the global world. In: The Importance of Being Human, 28 Mar 2011, Birkbeck, University of London. (Unpublished)

Wells, Karen (2011) The place of children and childhood in social reproduction. In: The political economy of social reproduction across the lifecourse: global perspectives, 18 Mar 2011, Birkbeck, University of London. (Unpublished)

Book

Abebe, T. and Dar, A. and Wells, Karen, eds. (2024) Routledge handbook of childhood studies and global development. London, UK & New York, U.S.: Routledge. ISBN 9780367740436. (In Press)

Wells, Karen (2021) Childhood in a global perspective, 3rd edition. Cambridge: Polity. ISBN 9781509541713.

Wells, Karen (2020) The visual cultures of childhood: Film and television from The Magic Lantern to teen vloggers. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9781786611048.

Wells, Karen, ed. (2019) Teen lives around the world: a global encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calafornia, USA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781440852442.

Wells, Karen (2017) Childhood studies: making young subjects. Short Introductions. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745670249.

Wells, Karen (2014) Childhood in global perspective, 2nd edition. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745684949.

Wells, Karen and Burman, E. and Montgomery, H. and Watson, A., eds. (2014) Childhood, youth and violence in global contexts. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137322593.

Wells, Karen (2009) Childhood in global perspective. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745638362.