Children and Ngos in India: Development as Storytelling and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780367561758 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 186 str.

Annie McCarthy

Opis

This book is an ethnographic exploration of slum children’s participation in NGO programs that centres children’s narratives as key to understanding the lived experience of development in India where 50% of the population is under the age of 25.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Developing the Child  1. Development: A Story of Three Million NGOs, Innumerable Slum Dwellers and Some Wonderfully ‘Animated’ Children  2. Childhood: A Story of Interventions, Birthdays, Play and Pragmatism  Part II: Problems and Solutions  3. Problem: Violence  4. Photo-essay: A Class in Self Defence  5. Solutions: Girl Power and Real Men  Part III: Performance  6. Handwashing as Potential: "But my Mother Washes her Hands!"  7. Fun and Dreams  Conclusion

O autorze

Annie McCarthy is Assistant Professor in Global Studies at the University of Canberra, Australia.