Working childhoods : youth, agency and the environment in India /

Working Childhoods draws upon research in the Indian Himalayas to provide a theoretically-informed account of children's lives in a remote part of the world. The book shows that children in their pre-teens and teens are lynchpins of the rural economy, spending hours each day herding cattle, col...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dyson, Jane, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Rural youth > India > Social conditions.
Rural youth > Employment > India.
Human ecology > India.
Jeunes en milieu rural > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Jeunes en milieu rural > Travail > Inde.
Écologie humaine > Inde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Human ecology
Rural youth > Employment
Rural youth > Social conditions
Jugend
Ländlicher Raum
Barnarbete.
Lantarbetare.
Socialantropologi.
India
Uttaranchal
Indien.
Himalaya.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Working with young people in the Himalayas
  • Young people's agency
  • Young people and the environment
  • South Asian approaches
  • Uttarakhand
  • Chamoli district
  • Locating the village
  • Argument and structure of the book
  • 2. high Himalayas
  • Bemni
  • Social inequalities
  • Conclusions
  • 3. delicate dance: young people's work
  • Children's household work
  • Children's agricultural and forest work
  • Schoolwork
  • Conclusions
  • 4. Herding, fun and difference
  • Herding, seasonality and gender
  • Herding and fun (mazaa)
  • Gender, caste and play
  • herding puja
  • Conclusions
  • 5. Friendship in practice: collecting leaves in Bemni
  • Leaf collection in Bemni
  • Village expectations
  • Achieving leaf collection standards by friendship
  • Firm friends and cultural production
  • Conclusions
  • 6. Harvesting identities: mukku, gender and development
  • Mukku in Bemni
  • Saka
  • Contextualising girls' transgressions
  • Rakesh
  • Conclusions
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Active quiescence
  • Social inequality
  • social construction of the environment
  • Conclusions.

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