ABSTRACT
After around 25 years as a key concept in Childhood Studies, agency is due for a thorough revision, and the reconceptualisation undertaken in this volume serves this purpose. This process has brought to light the wide-ranging theoretical and analytical potential that a critical and relational concept of agency still offers today. In the actual interdisciplinary research field of agency and childhood, we have identified five topics: (1) new paths in the theoretical conceptualisation of agency; (2) children as actors in research and their effects on research practice; (3) historical world; (4) transnational and majority world; and (5) institution-based approaches to childhood and agency.
