Part 3 zooms in on the generational dynamics of development by exploring how prominent development interventions (conditional cash transfers, schooling) problems (gender discrimination) and questions (the generational question of farming) shape the (gendered) experience of being young and growing up.
Part 3 zooms in on the generational dynamics of development by exploring how prominent development interventions (conditional cash transfers, schoolin...
Focusing on the Karen people in Burma, Thailand and the United Kingdom, this book analyses how global, regional and local developments affect patterns of learning. It combines historical and ethnographic research to explore the mutual shaping of intergenerational relations and children s practical and formal learning within a context of migration and socio-political change. In this endeavour, Pia Jolliffe discusses traditional patterns of socio-cultural learning within Karen communities as well as the role of Christian missionaries in introducing schooling to the Karen in Burma and in...
Focusing on the Karen people in Burma, Thailand and the United Kingdom, this book analyses how global, regional and local developments affect patte...
This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics. It examines (once) hegemonic anti-child trafficking discourse, policy and practice, and does so by placing secondary literature from around the world in conversation the author s paradigmatic case study of the situation in southern Benin. It deconstructs the child trafficking paradigm, contrasts it with real histories of child and youth labour and mobility, and seeks to explain it by going inside the anti-trafficking field. In...
This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact...
This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using "generation" as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort development and memory-making. It reveals how child agents exploited the liminal nature of exile to negotiate their sense of identity, home and belonging, while also struggling over their position and power in formal Politics and informal politics of the everyday. It also reflects upon their political consciousness, identity and...
This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using "generation" as an analytical concept, it investigates ...
This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice. increasing inequality alongside economic progress, and the increasing prominence of business and the private sector in delivering aid programmes.
This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how t...
