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Children and the Politics of Culture
Stephens
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Description for Children and the Politics of Culture
Paperback. Exploring the global dimensions of children at risk, this book discusses the notion of children's rights, and the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. It reveals how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies. Editor(s): Stephens, Sharon. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691043289
SKU
V9780691043289
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About Stephens
Sharon Stephens is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and School of Social Work at the University of Michigan and is Senior Research Associate at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim, Norway.
Reviews for Children and the Politics of Culture
"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. This stimulating volume should interest social scientists across many fields, particularly anthropologists and area specialists, who will benefit ... Read more