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A discursive exploration of the positioning of children in research on mental–health-promoting interventions 13 Disa Bergnehr and Karin Zetterqvist Nelson 3 Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English social and public health policy and understandings of the child 27 Pam Lowe, Ellie Lee and Jan Macvarish 4 Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta 41 Gillian M. Martin 5 ‘You have to do 60 minutes of physical activity per day . . . I saw it on TV’: Children’s constructions of play in the context of Canadian public health discourse of playing for health. 55 Stephanie A. Alexander, Caroline Fusco and Katherine L. Frohlich 6 Parents’ experiences of diagnostic processes of young children in Norwegian day-care institutions 69 Terese Wilhelmsen and Randi Dyblie Nilsen 7 The meaning of a label for teenagers negotiating identity: experiences with autism spectrum disorder 83 Lise Mogensen and Jan Mason 8 What am I ‘living’ with? Growing up with HIV in Uganda and Zimbabwe 98 Sarah Bernays, Janet Seeley, Tim Rhodes and Zivai Mupambireyi 9 Food, risk and place: agency and negotiations of young people with food allergy 112 Marie-Louise Stjerna 10 Negotiating pain: the joint construction of a child’s bodily sensation 126 Laura Jenkins 11 Understanding inter-generational relations: the case of health maintenance by children 140 Berry Mayall Index 153 Notes on contributors Geraldine Brady Centre for Communities and Social Justice, Coventry University, UK Pam Lowe School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, UK Sonja Olin Lauritzen Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden Disa Bergnehr Department of Child Studies, Linko¨ping University, Sweden Karin Zetterqvist Nelson Department of Child Studies, Linko¨ping University, Sweden Ellie Lee SSPSSR Cornwallis Building, University of Kent, UK Jan Macvarish CHSS, University of Kent, UK Gillian M. Martin Department of Sociology, University of Malta, Malta Stephanie A. Alexander School of Public Health, l’Universite´ de Montre´al, Canada Caroline Fusco Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Canada Katherine L. Frohlich Institut de recherche en sante´ publique de l’Universite´ de Montre´al, University of Montre´al, Canada Terese Wilhelmsen Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Randi Dyblie Nilsen Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Lise Mogensen Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Australia Jan Mason School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia Sarah Bernays London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Uganda Tim Rhodes London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK viii Notes on contributors Zivai Mupambireyi Centre for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Research, Zimbabwe and University College, London, UK Marie-Louise Stjerna So¨derto¨rn University, School of Culture and Education, Sweden Laura Jenkins University of Sheffeld, UK Berry Mayall Social Science Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University of London, UK