{"product_id":"9781349286157","title":"New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature: Utopian Transformations","description":"\u003cp\u003eChildren's texts are highly responsive to social change and to global politics, and are implicated in shaping the values of children and young people. New World Orders shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic, and political movements of the last 15 years. With a focus on international children's texts produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible futures to child readers. The book considers what these texts have to say about globalisation, neocolonialism, environmental issues, pressures on families and communities, and the idea of the posthuman. This fascinating volume is the first thorough study of how children's books imagine and propose possible worlds and societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClare Bradford is Professor of Literature at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKerry Mallan is Professor in Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Stephens is Professor in English at Macquarie University, Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobyn McCallum is Lecturer in English Literature at Macquarie University, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040867172592,"sku":"9781349286157","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781349286157_p0.jpg?v=1763710873","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781349286157","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}