Children's Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

by Fog Olwig,Karen

• ISBN13: 9780415296403
• ISBN10: 0415296404
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Based on in-depth ethnographic research,Children's Placesexamines 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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	viii
Towards an anthropology of children and place
KAREN FOGOLWIG AND EVA GULLØV	1	(20)
PART I Place as a site of opportunity and control	21	(76)
1 Creating a natural place for children: an ethnographic study of Danish kindergartens	23	(16)
EVA GULLØV
2 Restricted experiences in a conflict society: the local lives of Belfast children	39	(19)
LAURA GILLIAM
3 The Smith children go out to school - and come home again: place-making among Kuku-Yalanji children in Southeast Cape York, Australia	58	(19)
FRANCINE LORIMER
4 How will the children come home? Emplacement and the creation of the social body in an Ethiopian returnee settlement	77	(22)
LAURA HAMMOND
PART II Place as a site in the field of generational relations	97	(80)
5 Growing up between places of work and non-places of childhood: the uneasy relationship	99	(20)
OLGA NIEUWENHUYS
6 Common neighbourhoods - diversified lives: growing up in urban Norway	119	(19)
HILDE LIDEN
7 Associationless children: inner-city sports and local society in Denmark	138	(24)
SALLY ANDERSON
8 Changing place, changing position: orphans' movements in a community with high HIV/AIDS prevalence in western Kenya	162	(17)
ERICK OTIENO NYAMBEDHA AND JENS AAGAARD-HANSEN
PART III Place as a source of belonging: local communities, national identities, global relations	177	(59)
9 Sweet and bitter places: the politics of schoolchildren's orientation in rural Uganda	179	(18)
LOTTE MEINERT
10 'Imagined communities': the local community as a place for 'children's culture' and social participation in Norway	197	(20)
ANNE TRINE KJØRHOLT
11 Children's places of belonging in immigrant families of Caribbean background	217	(19)
KAREN FOG OLWIG
Epilogue: children's places	236	(11)
VERED AMIT
Index	247