Inhabiting 'Childhood': Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India

AvS. Balagopalan

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Through a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit the transition from labour to schooling.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 42 mm
Vikt:336 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:237
Upplaga:14001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349333561

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Sarada Balagopalan is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi.

Recensioner i media

"Sarada Balagopalan's Inhabiting Childhood is a very welcome contribution, since it reconstitutes the debate on childhood from the standpoint of subaltern children. ... Balagopalan's ethnography is tremendously rich for allowing the normative understanding of childhood to be questioned in terms of these broad categories. ... Readers will find it a very satisfying and evocative contribution to South Asian childhood studies." (Nandini Chandra, H-Childhood, h-net.org, January, 2016)

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction 2. Re-Forming Lives: The Child on the Street and the 'Street Child' 3. Sedimenting Labour Through Schooling: Colonial State, Native Elite and Working Children in Early Twentieth Century India 4. Memories of Tomorrow: On Children, Labour and Postcolonial 'Development' 5. The Politics of Failure: Children's Rights and the 'Call of the Other' 6. 'A Magic Wand': Reading the Promise of the 'Right to Education' against the Lives of Working Children 7. Conclusion: Growing Up, Moving On...