Pillars of the nation : child citizens and Ugandan national development /

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How can children simultaneously be the most important and least powerful people in a nation? In her innovative ethnography of Ugandan children?the pillars of tomorrow?s Uganda, according to the national youth anthem?Kristen E. Cheney answers this question by exploring the daily contradictions childr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cheney, Kristen E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Temas:
Children's rights > Uganda.
Children > Uganda > Social conditions.
Children and war > Uganda.
Enfants > Droits > Ouganda.
Enfants > Ouganda > Conditions sociales.
Enfants et guerre > Ouganda.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
Children and war
Children > Social conditions
Children's rights
Kinderen.
Sociale situatie.
Economische ontwikkeling.
Burgeroorlogen.
Uganda
Uganda.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the role of Ugandan child citizens in the struggle for national development
  • Global rights discourses, national developments, and local childhoods
  • Crucial components of child citizenship
  • "Education for all": the dilemma of children's educational attainment, national development, and class mobility
  • "Speaking the English of a Ugandan person": the intersections of children's identity formation
  • Children's political socialization: engagement and disempowerment
  • Actualizations
  • "Village life is better than town life": identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens
  • "Our children have only known war": the predicament of children and childhood in northern Uganda
  • "Did the constitution produce my children!?" Cultural production and contestation in Uganda's national primary school music festivals
  • Epilogue.

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