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  Title

  Children and the politics of culture

  Author

  Stephens, Sharon, 1952-  

  Publisher:

  Princeton University Press,

  Pub date:

  ©1995.

  Pages:

  viii, 366 pages :

  ISBN:

  0691043299

  Item info:

  1 copy available at The Ford Motor Company Library/Learning Resource Center.
  

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  • Holdings

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    The Ford Motor Company Library/Learning Resource Center	Copies	Material	Location
    PRITCHETT HQ767.9 .C449 1995	1	Book	Reference Material

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  Children and the politics of culture
  Stephens, Sharon, 1952-
  

  Title:

  Children and the politics of culture / Sharon Stephens, editor.

  Publication info:

  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995.

  Physical description:

  viii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (Princeton studies in culture/power/history)

  General Note:

  "This collection of papers developed from the session 'Children and the politics of culture' organized in connection with the international conference 'Children at Risk' held in Bergen, Norway, in May 1992 and sponsored by the Norwegian Centre for Child Research"--Preface.

  Contents:

  Children and the politics of culture in "late capitalism" / Sharon Stephens -- The child as laborer and consumer : the disappearance of childhood in contemporary Japan / Norma Field -- Have you seen me? Recovering the inner child in late twentieth-century America / Marilyn Ivy -- Children's rights in a free-market culture / Mary John -- Children in the examination war in South Korea : a cultural analysis / Hae-joang Cho -- Children's stories and the state in new order Indonesia / Saya S. Shiraishi -- Children, population policy, and the state in Singapore / Vivienne Wee -- Youth and the politics of culture in South Africa / Pamela Reynolds -- "There's a time to act English and a time to act Indian" : the politics of identity among British-Sikh teenagers / Kathleen Hall -- Second-generation noncitizens : children of the Turkish migrant diaspora in Germany / Ruth Mandel -- Children, politics, and culture : the case of Brazilian Indians / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha -- The "cultural fallout" of Chernobyl radiation in Norwegian Sami regions : implications for children / Sharon Stephens -- Recovering childhood : children in South African national reconstruction / Njabulo Ndebele.

  Review:

  "The bodies and minds of children -- and the very space of children -- are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years representing the domain of contemporary childhood as threatened, invaded, polluted, and "stolen" by adults." "Through a series of essays that explore the global dimensions of children at risk, an international group of researchers and policymakers discuss the notion of children's rights, and in particular the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. Explorations of children's situations in Japan, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, England, Norway, the United States, Brazil, and Germany reveal how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in contemporary battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies." "Throughout this volume, the authors address the complex and often ambiguous implications of the concept of rights. For example, it may be used to defend indigenous children from radically assimilationist or even genocidal state policies; but it may also be used to legitimate racist institutions. A substantive introduction by the editor examines global political economic frameworks for the cultural debates affecting children and traces intriguing, sometimes surprising, threads throughout the papers." "In addition to the editor, the contributors are Norma Field, Marilyn Ivy, Mary John, Hae-joang Cho, Saya Shiraishi, Vivienne Wee, Pamela Reynolds, Kathleen Hall, Ruth Mandel, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, and Njabulo Ndebele. Book jacket."--Jacket.

  Held by:

  MAIN

  Subject term:

  Children--Social conditions.

  Subject term:

  Children--Government policy.

  Subject term:

  Children's rights.

  Subject term:

  Ethnicity in children.

  Subject term:

  Identity (Psychology) in children.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Stephens, Sharon, 1952-

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  http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366298

  Local system #:

  (OCoLC)32272032 (OCoLC)36351053 (OCoLC)810633708 (OCoLC)877654313