The 'Poor Child': The Cultural Politics of Education, Development and Childhood

ISBN-13: 9780367174170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Lucy Hopkins; Arathi Sriprakash

Opis

This book brings together analytic approaches from childhood studies, sociology, cultural studies and development studies to illustrate the different ways in which the concept of the ‘poor child’ is constructed and mobilised through development policy agendas in different national contexts.

Spis treści

Unsettling the global child: rethinking child subjectivity in education and international development Lucy Hopkins and Arathi Sriprakash.  Section 1: Cultural representations of childhood and poverty  ‘It shouldn’t happen here’: Cultural and relational dynamics structured around the ‘poor child’ Erica Burman.  ‘Black kid burden’: cultural representations of Indigenous childhood and poverty in Australia Kristina Gottschall  Section 2: Contextualising the ‘poor child’: children’s voices as modes of resistance  Child labour, schooling and the reconstruction of childhood: a case study from Kenya Angela Githitho Muriithi.  Victims of what? Misunderstandings of anti-trafficking child protection policies in Benin Simona Morganti.  The construction of resilience: voices of poor children in Mexico Luz María Stella Moreno Medrano.  Section 3: Questioning the project of schooling and the politics of development  Policy constructions of childhoods: impacts of multi-level education and development policy processes in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Alexandra McCormick.  Modernity and multiple childhoods: interrogating the education of the rural poor in global India Arathi Sriprakash.  Picturing education, poverty and childhood from the perspectives of yak herder children in Bhutan Lucy Hopkins.  Revisioning ‘development’: towards a relational understanding of the ‘poor child’ Arathi Sriprakash and Lucy Hopkins.

O autorze

Lucy Hopkins is a lecturer in children and family studies at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.  

Arathi Sriprakash is a lecturer in sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, UK.