Learning From the Children: Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World

Author:   Jacqueline Waldren ,  Ignacy-Marek Kaminski
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   35
ISBN:  

9781782386759


Pages:   204
Publication Date:   01 September 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Learning From the Children: Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World


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Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult-child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child's perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult-child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world.

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Author:   Jacqueline Waldren ,  Ignacy-Marek Kaminski
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   35
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781782386759


ISBN 10:   1782386750
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   01 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Jacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski PART I: CHANGING NORMS Chapter 1. Invisible Routes, Invisible Lives: The Multiple Worlds of Runaway and Missing Women and Girls in Upper Sindh, Pakistan Nafisa Shah Chapter 2. Education, Tradition and Modernization: Bedouin Girls in Israel Sarab Abu-Rabia Quedar PART II: LISTENING AND LEARNING Chapter 3. More Than One Rung: Young women's disadvantage in careers, work, skills and pay Lucy Russell and Louisa Darian Chapter 4. We're Not Poor! They Are: Talking with children and parents about poverty and social exclusion in so-called 'deprived areas' of Milton Keynes Anna Laerke Chapter 5. Dancing With An Angel :What I have learnt from my special needs daughter, Elisa Elsa Dawson Chapter 6. Being Parented? Children and young people's engagement with parenting activities Julie Seymour and Sally McNamee PART III: CROSS-CULTURAL MOBILITY Chapter 7. Children's Moving Stories: How the children of British lifestyle migrants cope with super-diversity Karen O'Reilly Chapter 8. Children Negotiating Identity in Mallorca Jacqueline Waldren Chapter 9. Identity Without Birthright: Negotiating Children's Citizenship and Identity in Cross-Cultural Bureaucracy Ignacy-Marek Kaminski Chapter 10. Doing Fieldwork with Children in Japan Roger Goodman Notes on the Contributors Bibliography Index

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This volume is an important contribution to the literature on children, their life worlds and child-parent interaction in multicultural settings. It is not entirely new that children have agency. The merit of the authors of this volume is that they are starting to address which strategies children may use both to strengthen and utilize this agency, and not the least point at limitations of agency. * Harald Beyer Broch, University of Oslo Overall this is a strong volume with a coherent narrative and some very rich ethnography. I enjoyed reading it - all the contributors write well and have focused on the themes of the book. The links made between academic and practitioner work were very well done and the personal voices of the authors come through strongly. This is often an extremely hard task to pull off without becoming self-indulgent but in this case it worked very well. * Heather Montgomery, The Open University, UK


Author Information

Jacqueline Waldren (1937-2021) was Research Associate, Lecturer and Tutor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and International Gender Studies and a member of Linacre College, University of Oxford. Her research on Europe included identity, gender, migration, tourism and lifestyle changes. Her publications include Insiders and Outsiders (1996), Tourists and Tourism (co-ed., 1997), Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development (co-ed., 2004) and many articles. She was Director of DAMARC, Deia Archaeological and Anthropological Museum and Research Centre in Mallorca, Spain.

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