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academic achievement
africa
anthropology
Author_Kristen E. Cheney
Category=JBSP1
Category=JHM
childhood
children
citizenship
cultural production
disempowerment
displacement
education
empowerment
engagement
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ethnography
generational conflict
human rights
identity
migration
music festivals
nation
nationalism
nonfiction
political socialization
politics
power
rural
school
social change
uganda
urban
war zones
Product details
- ISBN 9780226102474
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2007
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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How can children simultaneously be the most important and least powerful people in a nation? In this innovative ethnography of Ugandan children - the pillars of tomorrow's Uganda, according to the national youth anthem - Kristen E. Cheney answers this question by exploring the daily contradictions children face as they try to find their places amid the country's rapidly changing social conditions. Drawing on the detailed life histories of several children, Cheney shows that children and childhood are being redefined by the desires of a young country struggling to position itself in the international community. She moves between urban schools, music festivals, and war zones to reveal how Ugandans are constructing childhood as an empowering identity for the development of the nation. Moreover, through her analysis of children's rights ideology, national government strategy, and children's everyday concerns, Cheney also shows how these young citizens are vitally linked to the global political economy as they navigate pitfalls and possibilities for a brighter tomorrow.
Kristen E. Cheney is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Dayton.
