Pillars of the nation : child citizens and Ugandan national development / / Kristen E. Cheney.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 299 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.