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Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives
Cindi Katz
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paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 32ill. BIC Classification: JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 175 x 18. Weight in Grams: 686.
"Brilliant and intimate. The book is an eloquent rendition of the expansive spatial abstractions and mimetic revolutionary re-imagination it proposes." -Social and Cultural Geography
Growing Up Global examines the processes of development and global change through the perspective of children’s lives in two seemingly disparate places: New York City and a village in northern Sudan. At the book’s core is a longitudinal ethnographic study of children growing up in a Sudanese village that was included in a large state-sponsored agricultural program in the year they were born. It follows a small number of children intermittently from ten years of ... Read more
"Brilliant and intimate. The book is an eloquent rendition of the expansive spatial abstractions and mimetic revolutionary re-imagination it proposes." -Social and Cultural Geography
Growing Up Global examines the processes of development and global change through the perspective of children’s lives in two seemingly disparate places: New York City and a village in northern Sudan. At the book’s core is a longitudinal ethnographic study of children growing up in a Sudanese village that was included in a large state-sponsored agricultural program in the year they were born. It follows a small number of children intermittently from ten years of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816642106
SKU
V9780816642106
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About Cindi Katz
Cindi Katz is professor of geography in the Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies Programs at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Reviews for Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives
"Growing up Global is a provocative account of development and global change through the perspective of children's lives. . . . This book and the critical geography it represents are a remarkable effort to bridge two seemingly different worlds in both time and space." -Annals of the Association of American Geographers "An eloquently prosaic, and readable narrative, effortlessly interweaving theoretical ... Read more