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Young people like Alfie (ch. 14), Victoria (ch. 15), Simon (ch. 16) and Alem and Shewa (ch. 17) highlight the vitality of their embodied lives, and the dynamics of childhood and youth. Young bodies and ‘what they do’ remind us of the corporeality of human lives, as well as the interfaces and relations between those bodies/lives and the other adult lives and nonhuman contexts that surround them. Together, the chapters in Part III emphasise the diversity of these issues, and the following commentary reflects some of the more generic strengths of this collection and raises some of the wider ramifications we might consider in performing further research on contested bodies of childhood and youth.
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Panelli, R. (2010). Commentary: Performing Bodies and Contestation. In: Hörschelmann, K., Colls, R. (eds) Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274747_18
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