Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth: Global Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367729165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str.

Nadia Von Benzon; Catherine Wilkinson

Opis

Contributions present international narratives from a broad range of contexts and locales, demonstrating the ways in which children's lives are shaped by intersecting identities and notions of difference.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Introduction  Part One: Stigma  2. Childhood Disability and Clothing: (Un)dressing debates  3. ‘They should have stayed’: Blaming street children and disruption of the intergenerational contract  4. Subverting neighbourhood normalcy and the impacts on child wellbeing in Malta  5. ‘Bad Children’: International stigmatisation of children trained to kill during war and armed conflict  Part Two: Work, Education and Activism  6. Other(ed) Childhoods: Supplementary Schools and the Politics of Learning 7. Not an ‘other’ childhood: child labour laws, working children and childhood in Bolivia  8. Unschooling and the simultaneous development and mitigation of ‘otherness’ amongst home schooling families  9. Being seen, being heard: Engaging and valuing young people as political actors and activists  Part Three: Out of Place  10. Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse as ‘Children out of Place’  11. Realising Childhood in an Urdu-Speaking Bihari Community in Bangladesh  12. Discovering Difference in Outer Suburbia: Mapping, intra-activity and alternative directedness in Shaun Tan’s Eric  13. Transnational Practices and Children’s Local Lives in Times of Economic Crisis  14. Conclusion.  Appendix

O autorze

Nadia von Benzon is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Lancaster, UK.

Catherine Wilkinson is a Senior Lecturer in Educaton at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.