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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 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.188kg ISBN: 9780230296428ISBN 10: 0230296424 Pages: 237 Publication Date: 29 April 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. 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) Sarada 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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