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Karen Wells talk

The material basis of gender relations in conditions of precarity: how children and families do gender in rural Benin and Togo

Dr. Karen Wells (Birkbeck)

Wednesday November 15th 1pm - 2pm 

 Geary Institute Seminar Room (BOO3/4)

Karen Wells is Reader in International Development and Childhood Studies at the Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on childhood and globalisation, and visual cultures of childhood. She is the author of Childhood in a Global Perspective (Polity, 2015, 2nd edition) and Childhood Studies: Making Young Subjects (Polity, 2017). She has published widely on visual representation and on the impacts of global structures and flows on children and childhood. All Welcome.

You can download the poster here.

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