Children's Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives,9780415296403

Children's Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415296403
ISBN10: 0415296404
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-12-09
Publisher(s): Routledge
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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

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