ISBN:
0520229517
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0520229509
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 377 p)
,
ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Sacrificed Generation : Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar
DDC:
305.235/09691
Keywords:
Education
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Youth Political activity
;
Imperialism
;
Youth
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Education ; Madagascar
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Imperialism
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Youth ; Madagascar ; Political activity
;
Youth ; Madagascar
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but schoolchildren. Lesley Sharp refutes dominant assumptions that African children are the helpless victims of postcolonial crises, incapable of organized, sustained collective thought or action.She insists instead on the political agency of Malagasy youth who, as they decipher their current predicament, offer potent, histor
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES ON THE TEXT; PART I. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A CHILDREN'S HISTORY; Introduction; Alternative Visions; Historical and Political Considerations; Childhood Reconsidered; Methodological Conundrums; The Organization of the Study; 1. Youth and the Colonized Mind; Revolution and National Transformations; Linguistic Hegemony; Past Sacrifices; Reconfiguring the Nation; Youthful Reflections; PART II. THE PERPLEXITIES OF URBAN SCHOOLING: SACRIFICE, SUFFERING, AND SURVIVAL; 2. The Sacrificed Generation; African Inequalities
Description / Table of Contents:
Encountering ExtremesAn Ambanja Education; State Ideology and Pedagogical Praxis; Youth and the Politics of Schooling; 3. The Life and Hard Times of the School Migrant; Portraits of Daily Survival; The Trials of School Migration; The Tenuousness of School Success; Envisioning a Future; PART III. FREEDOM, LABOR, AND LOYALTY; 4. The Resurgence of Royal Power; The Reawakening of a Dormant Kingdom; Conquest and Royal Resistance; Royal Modern; 5. Our Grandfathers Went to War; The Colonial Hunger for African Labor; Conquest, Capture, and Enslavement; The Abandoned Bodies of Lost Ancestors
Description / Table of Contents:
Colonial Resistance6. Laboring for the Colony; A History of Forced Labor; Colonial Loyalties: La Mentalité Coloniale, La Mentalité Indigène; PART IV. YOUTH AND THE NATION: SCHOOLING AND ITS PERILS; 7. Girls and Sex and Other Urban Diversions; Town Girls; Worldly Diversions; The Immorality of Play; 8. The Social Worth of Children; Lost Youth; Children and Urban Prosperity; Conclusion: Youth in an Age of Nationalism; Despair; Youth and Memory Politics; Future Desires; APPENDIX 1. A GUIDE TO KEY INFORMANTS; APPENDIX 2. POPULATION FIGURES FOR MADAGASCAR, 1900-1994
Description / Table of Contents:
APPENDIX 3. POPULATION FIGURES FOR AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEYAPPENDIX 4. SCHOOLS IN AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEY; APPENDIX 5. ENROLLMENT FIGURES FOR SELECT AMBANJA SCHOOLS; APPENDIX 6. BAC RESULTS AT THE STATE-RUN LYCÉE TSIARASO I, 1990-1994; APPENDIX 7. STUDENTS' ASPIRATIONS; NOTES; GLOSSARY; A; B; C; D; F; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; Z; REFERENCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-370) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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