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Care and surveillance of children through domestic Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a range of technologies through which mundane objects are connected to the internet, collecting data about their environment and being able to be remotely operated. In domestic settings, they can be used to provide care for children but devices can also be used by them. This article aims to present an integrated analysis of IoT uses within the family context, particularly with re...

Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study

This article presents the design of a seven-country study focusing on childhood vaccines, Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe (VAX-TRUST), developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study consists of (a) situation analysis of vaccine hesitancy (examination of individual, socio-demographic and macro-level factors of vaccine hesitancy and analysis of media coverage on vaccines and vaccination and (b) particip...

From percentages to narratives: giving silence a voice in child sexual abuse wi...

Background: Over the last two decades, several studies have examined the extent and expression of child sexual abuse (CSA) in religious institutions. In 2021, following new Vatican guidelines and under intense public pressure, the Portuguese Episcopal Conference commissioned a study on CSA in Portugal by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church (PCC) and others associated with it (from 1950 to 2022). Objective...

Comissão Independente para o Estudo dos Abusos Sexuais de Crianças na Igreja Ca...

Esta base de dados resulta do trabalho da Comissão Independente para o Estudo dos Abusos Sexuais de Crianças na Igreja Católica Portuguesa. Contém as respostas das 512 pessoas vítimas que responderam ao inquérito. Os inquiridos foram questionados acerca da sua situação atual (local de residência, profissão, escolaridade, situação familiar e relação com a Igreja Católica), à situação da sua família de origem (si...

Lockdown practices: a portrait of young people in the family during the first l...

Governments introduced protective public health measures, including lockdowns and social distancing, in response to the unprecedented global crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. For young people, such measures are particularly painful, as they entail an interruption of their transitions to adulthood, which generally require taking up their position in the public space and emerging as a recognised soci...

Re-Envisioning Youth Studies in Times of Global Risks: an Introduction

Thirty years after the publication of Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1986/1992), the world has witnessed the rise and spread of risks of unprecedented intensity, scale, and pattern. Very often associated with climate change, disasters (floods, wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) occur in distinct local and national contexts but extend beyond political borders and regional territories, c...

“Warming the house”: Children and animals “doing family”

In this article, we explore the common worlds of children and companion animals, and ask how animals are contributing to the making of contemporary families, and of childhood therein. Departing from D. H. Morgan’s conceptualisation of family practices, we explore the possibility of extending this concept to children-animals relationships and ask whether it is possible to talk about children-animal practices. We...

Vidas suspensas? Os jovens em confinamento pandémico

Vidas Confinadas: famílias, quotidianos e vulnerabilidades sociais no início da...

O confinamento à lupa em quatro perfis: experiências no presente, perceções do ...