Children and the Politics of Culture
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Adolescence
Adoption
Adult
African National Congress
Anthropologist
Black Consciousness Movement
Black school
Capitalism
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Censorship
Child abuse
Child care
Children at Risk
Children's rights
Classroom
Colonialism
Colonization
Consideration
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Cram school
Cultural identity
Disease
Doctor of Philosophy
Education
Employment
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Ethnic group
Everyday life
Household
Ideology
Immigration
Indication (medicine)
Indigenous peoples
Individualism
Institution
Legal guardian
Legislation
Literature
Middle class
Migrant worker
Modernity
Nation state
Newspaper
Of Education
Oppression
Politician
Politics
Psychology
Racism
Ratification
Repatriation (humans)
Rhetoric
Right to education
School
School discipline
Sikh
Social constructionism
Social issue
Social order
Social relation
Social science
Social status
Social theory
Society
Soweto
Steve Biko
Suggestion
Textbook
The Other Hand
Trade union
Writing
Youth
Product details
- ISBN 9780691043289
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years representing the domain of contemporary childhood as threatened, invaded, polluted, and "stolen" by adults. Through a series of essays that explore the global dimensions of children at risk, an international group of researchers and policymakers discuss the notion of children's rights, and in particular the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. Explorations of children's situations in Japan, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, England, Norway, the United States, Brazil, and Germany reveal how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in contemporary battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies. Throughout this volume, the authors address the complex and often ambiguous implications of the concept of rights.
For example, it may be used to defend indigenous children from radically assimilationist or even genocidal state policies; but it may also be used to legitimate racist institutions. A substantive introduction by the editor examines global political economic frameworks for the cultural debates affecting children and traces intriguing, sometimes surprising, threads throughout the papers. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Norma Field, Marilyn Ivy, Mary John, Hae-joang Cho, Saya Shiraishi, Vivienne Wee, Pamela Reynolds, Kathleen Hall, Ruth Mandel, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, and Njabulo Ndebele.
Sharon Stephens is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and School of Social Work at the University of Michigan and is Senior Research Associate at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim, Norway.
