Small wars : the cultural politics of childhood
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Small wars : the cultural politics of childhood
University of California Press, c1998
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  Toyama
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  Kyoto
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  Nara
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  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
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  Kumamoto
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  Kagoshima
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: cloth ISBN 9780520209176
Description
"Small Wars" gathers together a hard-hitting series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures. Perceived as avenging spirits of aborted fetuses in Japan; as obstacles to, or desired commodities of, narcissistic adult fulfillment in North America; as foot soldiers cast onto the paths of drug wars in Spanish Harlem and ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia; and as 'street kids' and public enemies of the middle classes in Brazil, children - these authors suggest - are losing ground.The modern conception of the child as vulnerable and needing protection is giving way to that of the child as miniature adult, a full-circle return to Philippe Aries' notion of premodern childhood.
The authors raise vital questions about social and structural violence and its impact on children and families; about policies that portray children as innocent victims on the one hand and as irredeemable criminals on the other; and about the global economic and political conditions that place many of the world's children at risk. Providing groundbreaking contributions to the contemporary social history and ethnography of childhood, this volume will be important to readers across the social sciences.
Table of Contents
CONTRIBUTORS:
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
Philippe Bourgois
John A. Brett
Caroline B. Brettell
Donna M. Goldstein
Matthew C. Gutmann
Michael Harris
Daniel Hoffman
Jill E. Korbin
J. S. La Fontaine
Leonard B. Lerer
Lynn M. Morgan
Susan Niermeyer
Maria B. Olujic
Mary Picone
Elizabeth F. S. Roberts
Carolyn Sargent
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Meira Weiss
Linda M. Whiteford
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: pbk ISBN 9780520209183
Description
"Small Wars" gathers together a hard-hitting series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures. Perceived as avenging spirits of aborted fetuses in Japan; as obstacles to, or desired commodities of, narcissistic adult fulfillment in North America; as foot soldiers cast onto the paths of drug wars in Spanish Harlem and ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia; and as 'street kids' and public enemies of the middle classes in Brazil, children - these authors suggest - are losing ground. The modern conception of the child as vulnerable and needing protection is giving way to that of the child as miniature adult, a full-circle return to Philippe Aries' notion of premodern childhood.
The authors raise vital questions about social and structural violence and its impact on children and families; about policies that portray children as innocent victims on the one hand and as irredeemable criminals on the other; and about the global economic and political conditions that place many of the world's children at risk. Providing groundbreaking contributions to the contemporary social history and ethnography of childhood, this volume will be important to readers across the social sciences.
Table of Contents
CONTRIBUTORS: Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli Philippe Bourgois John A. Brett Caroline B. Brettell Donna M. Goldstein Matthew C. Gutmann Michael Harris Daniel Hoffman Jill E. Korbin J. S. La Fontaine Leonard B. Lerer Lynn M. Morgan Susan Niermeyer Maria B. Olujic Mary Picone Elizabeth F. S. Roberts Carolyn Sargent Nancy Scheper-Hughes Meira Weiss Linda M. Whiteford
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