Inhabiting 'childhood' : children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Balagopalan, Sarada
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.
Temas:
Since 1947
Postcolonialism > India.
Street children > India > Kolkata.
Child labor > India > Kolkata.
Education > India.
Postcolonialisme > Inde.
Enfants de la rue > Inde > Kolkata.
Enfants > Travail > Inde > Kolkata.
Age groups: children > India.
Sociology: work & labour > India.
Child labor
Colonial influence
Education
Postcolonialism
Social conditions
Street children
Social classes > India.
Society.
India > Colonial influence.
India > Social conditions > 1947-
Inde > Conditions sociales > 1947-
India
India > Kolkata
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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