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1 Berit Brandth is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Her research focuses on gender, work/family and welfare state policies. One central area of study has been fathers use of care policies to reconcile work and childcare. She is the author (with E. Kvande) of the book Flexible Fathers, and co-editor of Gender, Bodies and Work (2005) and Valgfrihetens tid. Omsorgspolitikk for barn i et fleksible arbeidsliv. Her research topics also include gender in agriculture- and forestry-based work, which she has studied through such inroads as technology, organization, family, body and the agricultural media. Guðný Björk Eydal is Professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. Her main research topics include the welfare state and policies on families and children, in particular childcare policies. She participates in REASSESS, the centre of excellence in welfare research. Among her recent publications are articles on childcare policies in the Nordic countries, Icelandic family policy, and children and the Nordic welfare states (e.g. Equal rights to earn and care, the case of Iceland (ed. with Gíslason); Social work and Nordic welfare policies for children present challenges in the light of the past 2008 with M. Satka, in European Journal of Social Work). Eva Gulløv is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Her research concerns children s social relations, formations of identity and meaning within educational institutions, and processes of inclusion and exclusion related to children of ethnic minorities. Her recent publications include Institutional Upbringing: A Discussion of the Politics of Childhood in Contemporary Denmark 2008 (in James & James, European Childhoods); Targeting Immigrant Children 2008 (with H. Bundgaard in N. Dyck, Exploring Regimes of Discipline); Children of Different Categories 2006 (with H. Bundgaard in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies); and Children s Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 2003 (with K. F. Olwig). ix

2 x Gunilla Halldén is Professor in Child Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. She has carried out research on children s ideas about family life and on the role of preschool in children s everyday life. Her work deals with the construction of childhood in relation to gender issues and modernity. Her recent publications include Children s Narratives as Ways of Exploring Caring and Control, Power and Relationships in International Journal of Critical Psychology 2004 and Children s Strategies for Agency in Preschool in Children & Society 2008; and in Swedish, Den Moderna barndomen och barns vardagsliv Allison James is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood & Youth at the University of Sheffield; Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS); and Professor II at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU. As one of the pioneers of childhood studies she has carried out a wide range of empirical and theoretical research, most recently exploring children s perceptions of hospital space and children s perspectives on food. Author of numerous books and articles, her latest book is European Childhoods 2008 (with A. L. James). Birgitte Johansen, PhD, is based at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU. Her fields of interest are work life studies, gender studies, family policy and welfare state studies as well as Foucauldian perspectives on government. She has published in Norwegian and international books and journals. Her recent publications include the article: Trick or Treat? Autonomy as Control 2005 (edited by R. Barret, in Management, Labour Process and Software Development) and in Norwegian: Fleksibilitet som utforderer til kvinners deltidsarbeid? 2007 (edited by E. Kvande and B. Rasmussen, in Arbeidslivets klemmer paradokser i det nye arbeidslivet). Anne Trine Kjørholt is Director of and Associate Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU. Her research fields include discourses on childhood and everyday life, including in African countries, children s rights and perspectives, citizenship, and early childhood education and care in a global perspective. Her publications include Global Childhoods: Globalization, Development and Young People 2008 (with S. Aitken and R. Lund); Flexible Childhood? Exploring Children s Welfare in Time and Space 2007 (with H. Zeiher, D. Devine and H. Strandell); Beyond Listening: Children s Perspectives in Early Childhood Services 2005 (with A. Clark and P. Moss).

3 xi Tora Korsvold was Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, at the time of writing this chapter and is currently Professor at Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education (QMUC). Her main research fields are the history of welfare states and children, childhood and childcare in a historical perspective. During the years she was a co-editor of the Nordic journal Barn. In 1998 she published her dissertation For alle barn. Barnehagen framvekst i velferdsstaten, which was reprinted in 2005 and Recent publications are Barns verdi (2006), Barn og barndom i velferdsstatens småbarnspolitikk (2008) and editor of Barndom. Barnehage. Inkludering (2011). Elin Kvande is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU. Her research interests include work and organizations, gender studies, welfare state, and work and family. Her recent publications include Doing Gender in Flexible Organizations 2007; Gender, Bodies and Work 2005 (edited with D. Morgan and B. Brandth); Valgfrihetens Tid, Omsorgspolitikk for barn i et fleksible arbeidsliv 2005 (edited with B. Brandth and B. Bungum); and in 2009 Work-Life Balance for Fathers in Globalized Knowledge Work. Some Insights from the Norwegian Context in Gender, Work and Organization. Peter Moss is Professor at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. His research interests include services for children, the workforce in these services, gender issues in work with children and the relationship between employment, care and gender, with a special interest in leave policies. Much of his work has been cross-national, especially within Europe. He currently edits a multinational and multi-lingual magazine Children in Europe; and co-ordinates an international network on leave policies and research. Recent books include Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Postmodern Perspectives 1999 (with G. Dahlberg and A. Pence); From Children s Services to Children s Spaces 2002 (with P. Petrie); Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education 2005 (by G. Dahlberg and P. Moss); Beyond Listening: Children s Perspectives on Early Childhood Services 2005 (with A. Clark and A.T. Kjørholt); and Care Work in Europe 2007 (with C. Cameron). Randi Dyblie Nilsen is Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU. She has carried out ethnographic research and published on several issues: children as social actors, everyday life and

4 xii space/place in family home and daycare centre settings, generational relations, constructions of child(hood), cultural (re)production, socialization, and methodological and theoretical issues. She currently leads the research project Day-care Centres in Transition. Inclusive Practices. A recent publication in English is Children in Nature: Cultural Ideas and Social Practices in Norway 2008 (in James & James, European Childhoods). Jens Qvortrup is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU; former Director of and, at the time of editing this work, Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU. He directed the large international study Childhood as a Social Phenomenon ( ). He was founding president of the International Sociological Association s section on sociology of childhood ( ) and a co-editor of the Sage journal Childhood ( ). He has published extensively in the field of childhood, including Childhood Matters 1994 (with M. Bardy, G. Sgritta and H. Wintersberger); Childhood and Children s Culture 2002 (with F. Mouritsen); Studies in Modern Childhood 2005; and Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies 2009 (with W. Corsaro and M. S. Honig). Minna Rantalaiho is Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, and the Nordic Gender Institute, Finland. Her research interests include Nordic welfare state and policy from different gender and/or childhood-related perspectives. Currently she is studying policy and practice of children s rights in the context of family change at NTNU, and the impact of gender-related organizing on women s social citizenship at the Nordic Gender Institute, Finland. Monica Seland was a PhD student at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, at the time of writing this chapter. She has ten years work experience in daycare centres, both as preschool teacher and manager. She is currently Associate Professor at Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education (QMUC), Faculty of Education. Her research interests include new discourses in Norwegian daycare policy and everyday life in daycare institutions. Her publications include her Master s thesis, Barnesamtalen: Narrative gruppeintervju med barn som en vei til medbestemmelse og nye erkjennelser i barnehagen (2004) and her PhD thesis, Det moderne barn og den fleksible barnehagen. En etnografisk studie av barnehagens hverdagsliv i lys av nyere diskurser og kommunal virkelighet (2009).

5 xiii Harriet Strandell is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests are in institutional childhood, childhood space, governance and child politics. Her recent publications include Flexible Childhood? Exploring Children s Welfare in Time and Space 2007 (with H. Zeiher, D. Devine and A.T. Kjørholt), After-School Hours and the Meaning of Home. Re-defining Finnish Childhood Space 2007 in Children s Geographies (with H. Forsberg) and From Structure Action to Politics of Childhood Sociological Childhood Research in Finland in Current Sociology 2010.

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