Global Childhoods: Globalization, Development and Young People

by Aitken; Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780415411455
• ISBN10: 0415411459
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This astute book initiates a broad discussion from a variety of different disciplines about how we place children nationally, globally and within development discourses. Unlike other books of its kind, it does not seek to dwell solely on the abiding complexities of local comparisons. Rather, it elaborates larger concerns about the changing nature of childhood, young people's experiences, their citizenship and the embodiment of their political identities as they are embedded in the processes of national development and globalization. In particular, this book concentrates on three main issues: nation building and developing children, child participation and activism in the context of development, and globalization and children's live in the context of what has been called the end of development. These are relatively broad research perspectives that find focus in what the authors term reproducing and developing children as a key issue of national and global concern. They further argue thatunderstanding children and reproduction is key to understanding globalization.

Table of Contents

Why Children? Why Now?	p. 3
The Globalized North and Exporting Childhoods
Reflections of Primitivism: Development, Progress and Civilization in Imperial America, 1898-1914	p. 15
Childhood as a Symbolic Space: Searching for Authentic Voices in the Era of Globalisation	p. 29
Childhood in the Age of Global Media	p. 43
The Globalized South and Importing Livelihoods
Hungry Children and Networks of Aid in Argentina: Thinking about Geographies of Responsibility and Care	p. 55
Changing Livelihoods, Changing Childhoods: Patterns of Children's Work in Rural Southern Ethiopia	p. 77
Negotiating Migrant Identities: Young People in Bolivia and Argentina	p. 95
Desarrollo Integral y Fronteras/Integral Development and Borderspaces	p. 113
Child Participation in Development: A Globalized Discourse
At the Interface of Development Studies and Child Research: Rethinking the Participating Child	p. 131
Embedding the Global Womb: Global Child Labour and the New Policy Agenda	p. 149
Children, Young People, UNICEF and Participation	p. 165
Index	p. 183
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