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OverviewThrough a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit the transition from labour to schooling. Full Product DetailsAuthor: S. BalagopalanPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2014 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781349333561ISBN 10: 1349333565 Pages: 237 Publication Date: 01 January 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsSarada Balagopalan's Inhabiting Childhood is a very welcome contribution, since it reconstitutes the debate on childhood from the standpoint of subaltern children. ... Balagopalan's ethnography is tremendously rich for allowing the normative understanding of childhood to be questioned in terms of these broad categories. ... Readers will find it a very satisfying and evocative contribution to South Asian childhood studies. (Nandini Chandra, H-Childhood, h-net.org, January, 2016) Author InformationSarada Balagopalan is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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