Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781138392281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 134 str.

Audra A. Diptee; David V. Trotman

Opis

Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts explores the ways in which childhood was imagined and the experiences of the young were shaped under colonialism in Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and India. The essays also explore the ways in which the interplay of Atlantic and Global dynamics influenced young people’s daily lives, as well as the discourses that were used to articulate concerns about young people in colonial contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.

Spis treści

1. Atlantic childhood and youth in global context: reflections on the Global South  2. Atlantic World mining, child labor, and the transnational construction of childhood in Imperial Britain in the mid-nineteenth century  3. ‘‘A most horrifying maturity in crime’’: age, gender and juvenile delinquency in colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising  4. Global child-saving, transatlantic maternalism, and the pathologization of Caribbean childhood, 1930s-1940s  5. The 1938-1939 Moyne Commission in Barbados: investigating the status of children  6. Using child labor to save souls: the Basel Mission in colonial Ghana, 1855-1900  7. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 25 years later: Sara Austin reflects on the journey