ISBN:
9780415296403
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Children's Places : Cross-Cultural Perspectives
DDC:
305.23
Keywords:
Child rearing - Cross-cultural studies
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Children's Places examines the ways in which children and adults, from their different vantage-points in society, negotiate the 'proper place' of children in both social and spatial terms. It looks at some of the recognised constructions of children, including perspectives from cultures that do not distinguish children as a distinct category of people, as well as examining contexts for them, from schools and kindergartens to inner cities and war-zones. The result is a much-needed insight into the notions of inclusion and exclusion, the placement and displacement of children within ge
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Children's Places; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Towards an anthropology of children and place; PART I Place as a site of opportunity and control; 1 Creating a natural place for children: an ethnographicstudy of Danish kindergartens; 2 Restricted experiences in a conflict society: the local lives of Belfast children; 3 The Smith children go out to school - and come homeagain: place-making among Kuku-Yalanji children inSoutheast Cape York, Australia
Description / Table of Contents:
4 How will the children come home? Emplacement and the creation of the social body in an Ethiopian returnee settlementPART II Place as a site in the field of generational relations; 5 Growing up between places of work and non-places ofchildhood: the uneasy relationship; 6 Common neighbourhoods - diversified lives: growing upin urban Norway; 7 Associationless children: inner-city sports and local society in Denmark; 8 Changing place, changing position: orphans' movements in acommunity with high HIV/AIDS prevalence in western Kenya
Description / Table of Contents:
PART III Place as a source of belonging: local communities,national identities, global relations9 Sweet and bitter places: the politics of schoolchildren'sorientation in rural Uganda; 10 'Imagined communities': the local community as a place for 'children's culture' and social participation in Norway; 11 Children's places of belonging in immigrant families ofCaribbean background; Epilogue: children's places; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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