Children's Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415296403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 264 str.

Karen Fog Olwig; Eva Gullov

Opis

Children's Places examines the ways in which children and adults, from their different vantage points in society, negotiate the proper place of children in both social and spatial terms. It looks at some of the recognized constructions of children, including perspectives from cultures that do not distinguish children as a distinct category of people, as well as examining contexts for them, from schools and kindergartens to inner cities and war-zones. The result is an insight into the notions of inclusion and exclusion, the placement and displacement of children within generational ranks and orders, and the kinds of places that children construct for themselves. Based on in-depth ethnographic research from Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, Australia and New Zealand, it challenges Eurocentric theories of childhood.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Towards an anthropology of children and place, Karen Fog Olwig, Eva Gulløv; Part 1 Part I Place as a site of opportunity and control; Chapter 2 Creating a natural place for children, Eva Gulløv; Chapter 3 Restricted experiences in a conflict society, Laura Gilliam; Chapter 4 The Smith children go out to school — and come home again, Francine Lorimer; Chapter 5 How will the children come home?, Laura Hammond; Part 2 Place as a site in the field of generational relations; Chapter 6 Growing up between places of work and non-places of childhood, Olga Nieuwenhuys; Chapter 7 Common neighbourhoods—diversified lives, Hilde Lidén; Chapter 8 Associationless children, Anderson Sally; Chapter 9 Changing place, changing position, Erick Otieno Nyambedha, Jens Aagaard-Hansen; Part 3 Place as a source of belonging; Chapter 10 Sweet and bitter places, Lotte Meinert; Chapter 11 ‘Imagined communities’, Anne Trine Kjørholt; Chapter 12 Children's places of belonging in immigrant families of Caribbean background, Karen Fog Olwig; Chapter 13 Epilogue, Vered AmitINDEX;

O autorze

Karen Fog Olwig is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is author of Global Culture, Island Identity (Harwood,1993) and co-editor of Work and Migration (Routledge, 2002)., Eva Gullov is a Senior Lecturer at the Danish University of Education in Copenhagen, and a co-founder of the Network for Cross-Cultural Child Studies.