Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives

by Panelli; Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780415397032
• ISBN10: 0415397030
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely linked, but basically independent, chapters. In this case, the book presents both thematically organised case studies and co-authored commentaries that integrate and advance current understandings and debates about rural childhood and youth.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface and Acknowledgements

From difference to dialogue: conceptualizing global perspectives on rural childhood and youth

Contexts and Identities

Doing and belonging: toward a more-than-representational account of young migrant identities in

Exploring masculinity, technology and identity in rural Norway

'Our lives are like a sock inside-out': children's work and youth identity in neoliberal rural Mexico

Rural daughters in Australia, New Zealand and the United States: an historical perspective

Reflecting on contexts and identities for young rural lives

Agency and Everyday Action

An example of 'thin' agency: child domestic workers in Tanzania Natascha Klocker

On both sides of the tracks: British rural teenagers' views on their ruralities

The 'Malaysian orphans' of Lombok: children and young people's livelihood responses to out-migration in eastern Indonesia

'I mean, it depends on me in the end, doesn't it?' Young people's perspectives on their daily lives and future prospects in rural east Germany

Conceptualizing agency in the lives and actions of rural young people

Power Relations and Processes

Generational power relations in rural

'Preppy-jocks', 'rednecks', 'stoners' and 'scum': power and youth social groups in rural Vermont

'The child drums and the elder dances'? Girlfriends and boyfriends negotiating power relations in rural Uganda

Rurality, power and the otherness of childhood in British contexts

Power and place for rural young people

Conclusions and future directions for studying young rural lives

Contributors

References

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