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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN)

Dr Deniz Arzuk

Deniz

Programme Leader (mat cover) MA Sociology of Childhood and Children’s Rights, Researcher of Childhood UCL Social Research Institute, University College London, United Kingdom

Email: d.arzuk@ucl.ac.uk

Profile

I was awarded both my MA and PhD degrees from Bogazici University Ataturk Institute, then worked as a Swedish Institute and Raoul Wallenberg Institute researcher at the Child Studies Unit at Linköping University in Sweden. I have been based at UCL Social Research Institute since January 2020. Theoretically, I adopt a social justice approach, exploring the relations between injustice/inequality, distinction, exclusion and conceptualisations of childhood, and advancing understandings of these and neoliberalism in the process. Methodologically, I offer historical and sociological insights about lived experiences of childhood and their relationship to cultural artefacts, such as newspapers and literature.

Research

Publications

Arzuk, D. (2019). Accidents waiting to happen: news coverage of children’s health and safety in Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s. Families, Relationships and Societies. doi:10.1332/204674319x15698298303569 

Expertise

- Neoliberalisation of childhood in comparative contexts, with a specific focus on Turkey and Britain.

- Childhood and children’s rights in policy and public discourse

- Children’s culture in the twentieth century
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