| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) : 6 black and white, halftones |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Re-forming Lives: The Child on the Street and the ''Street Child''; 2 Sedimenting Labour through Schooling: Colonial State, Native Elite and Working Children in Early Twentieth-Century India; 3 Memories of Tomorrow: On Children, Labour and Postcolonial ''Development''; 4 The Politics of Failure: Children''s Rights and the ''Call of the Other''; 5 ''A Magic Wand'': Reading the Promise of the ''Right to Education'' against the Lives of Working Children; Conclusion: Growing up, Moving on ... ; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Through 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. Although 'multiple childhoods' recognizes children's lives as heterogeneous and culturally inscribed, the figure of the 'victimized' child continues to test the limits of this framework. Inhabiting 'Childhood' ambitiously redresses these limits by drawing on the everyday experiences of street children and child labourers in Calcutta to introduce the postcolony as a critical, and thus far absent, lens in theorizing the 'child'. Through capturing a moment in which global, national and local efforts combined to improve and transform these children's lives through school enrolment and new discourses of 'children's rights', this ethnography makes a vital point about the complexity and contemporaneity of their extensive practices of dwelling generated by the exigencies of survival within postcolonial 'development'. These modes of living labour are central to comprehending why these children though desirous of the transition from labour to school, find this difficult to inhabit. This book argues that this difficulty, which can be neither dissolved through a 'cultural' understanding of these lives nor resolved within a more technocratic policy norm, is in fact a very productive opening to re-thinking 'childhood' |
| Notes |
Epublication based on: 9780230296428 |
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1. Introduction 2. Re-Forming Lives: The Child on the Street and the 'Street Child' 3. Sedimenting Labour Through Schooling: Colonial State, Native Elite and Working Children in Early Twentieth Century India 4. Memories of Tomorrow: On Children, Labour and Postcolonial 'Development' 5. The Politics of Failure: Children's Rights and the 'Call of the Other' 6. 'A Magic Wand': Reading the Promise of the 'Right to Education' against the Lives of Working Children 7. Conclusion: Growing Up, Moving On .. |
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Sarada Balagopalan is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi |
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Postcolonialism -- India
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Street children -- India -- Kolkata
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Child labor -- India -- Kolkata
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Education -- India.
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Age groups: children -- India.
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Education -- India.
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Sociology: work & labour -- India.
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Child labor
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Colonial influence
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Education
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Postcolonialism
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Social conditions
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Street children
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Age groups: children -- India.
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Education -- India.
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Sociology: work & labour -- India.
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Social classes -- India.
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Society.
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India -- Colonial influence
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India -- Social conditions -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064952
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India
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India -- Kolkata
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137316790 |
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1137316799 |
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