Learning From the Children: Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World

Published by Berghahn Books 2012

Learning From the Children

Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World

Edited by: Jacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski

Volume 35 in the series New Directions in Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857453266

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About this book

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child’s perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult–child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world.

Author / Editor information

Jacqueline Waldren (1937-2021) was Research Associate, Lecturer and Tutor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and International Gender Studies and a member of Linacre College, University of Oxford. Her research on Europe included identity, gender, migration, tourism and lifestyle changes. Her publications include Insiders and Outsiders (1996), Tourists and Tourism (co-ed., 1997), Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development (co-ed., 2004) and many articles. She was Director of DAMARC, Deia Archaeological and Anthropological Museum and Research Centre in Mallorca, Spain.

Ignacy-Marek Kaminski is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Mejiro University, Tokyo; Associate Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at Goteborg University; and Visiting Senior Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford University. He has done fieldwork among the Ainu, Inuit, Roma and Ryukyuans; his research focuses on transitive identity, conflict resolution and leadership. His works are published in twelve languages.

Jacqueline Waldren (1937-2021) was Research Associate, Lecturer and Tutor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and International Gender Studies and a member of Linacre College, University of Oxford. Her research on Europe included identity, gender, migration, tourism and lifestyle changes. Her publications include Insiders and Outsiders (1996), Tourists and Tourism (co-ed., 1997), Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development (co-ed., 2004) and many articles. She was Director of DAMARC, Deia Archaeological and Anthropological Museum and Research Centre in Mallorca, Spain.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Jacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I CHANGING NORMS
Chapter 1. Invisible Routes, Invisible Lives: The Multiple Worlds of Runaway and Missing Women and Girls in Upper Sindh, Pakistan Nafisa Shah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. Between Tradition and Modernization: Under standing the Problem of Female Bedouin Dropouts Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Part II. LISTENING AND LEARNING
Chapter 3. More than One Rung on the Career Ladder Examining Barriers to the Labour Market for Young Women Living in Poverty Lucy Russell and Louisa Darian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 4 ‘We’re Not Poor – The Others Are’ Talking with Children about Poverty and Social Exclusion in Milton Keynes, England Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 5 Dancing with an Angel What I Have Learnt from My ‘Special Need s’ Daughter , Elisa Elsa L. Dawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 6. Being Parented ? Children and Young People ’s Engagement with Parenting Activities Julie Seymour and Sally McNamee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Part III. CROSS-CULTURAL MOBILITY
Chapter 7. Children ’s Moving Stories How the Children of British Life style Migrants Cope with Super-Diversity Karen O’Reilly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 8. Children Negotiating Identity in Mallorca Jacqueline Waldren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 9. Identity without Birthright Negotiating Children’s Citizenship and Identity in Cross-Cultural Bureaucracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Chapter 10. Doing Fieldwork with Children in Japan Roger Goodman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 204
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Sociology; Mobility Studies

eBook

Published: June 1, 2012
ISBN: 9780857453266