Book
Oswell, David. 2013. The Agency Of Children: From Family to Global Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521604703
Oswell, David. 2006. Culture and Society: An introduction to Cultural Studies. Sage. ISBN 0761942696
Oswell, David. 2002. Television, Childhood and the Home: A History of the Making of the Child Television Audience in Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198742606
Edited Book
Oswell, David, ed. 2010. Cultural Theory, Volumes 1-4. London: SAGE. ISBN 978-1848607057
Book Section
Oswell, David. 2018. What Space for a Children’s Politics? Rethinking Infancy in Childhood Studies. In: Spyros Spyrou; Rachel Rosen and Daniel Thomas Cook, eds. Reimagining Childhood Studies. London: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 9781350019225
Oswell, David. 2016. Re-aligning children's agency and re-socialising children in Childhood Studies. In: Florian Esser; Meike Baader; Tanja Betz and Beatrice Hungerland, eds. Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood: New Perspectives in Childhood Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 19-33. ISBN 1138854190
Oswell, David. 2010. Cultural Theory: Genealogies, Orientations and Territories. In: David Oswell, ed. Cultural Theory. London: Sage, xxi-xlviii. ISBN 9781848607057
Oswell, David. 2008. Media and Communications Regulation and Child Protection: An Overview of the Field. In: Kirsten Drotner and Sonia Livingstone, eds. International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture. London: Sage, pp. 469-486. ISBN 978-1-4129-2832-8
Oswell, David. 2001. Ethics and techno-childhood. In: I. Hutchby and J. Moran-Ellis, eds. Children, Technology and Culture: The impacts of technologies in children's everyday lives. Routledge Falmer, pp. 170-183. ISBN 0415236355
Article
Oswell, David. 2009. Infancy and Experience: Voice, Politics, and Bare Life. European Journal of Social Theory, 12(1), pp. 135-154. ISSN 1368-4310
Oswell, David. 2009. Yet to Come? Globality and the Sound of an Infant Politics. Radical Politics Today, 1(1), pp. 1-18.
Oswell, David. 2007. Infancy, Generation and Experience: Notes on the Sociological Empirical and Toward a Political Theory of Children’s Association. Sociology Working Papers, pp. 1-18.
Oswell, David. 2006. When Images Matter: Internet Child Pornography, Forms of Observation and an Ethics of the Virtual. Information Communication & Society, 9(2), pp. 244-265. ISSN 1369118X
Oswell, David. 2005. Mobile Signs: Matter, Medium, and Generation. Sociology Working Papers, pp. 1-10.