Children and the Politics of Culture / / ed. by Sharon Stephens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Cho, Hae-joang,; Field, Norma,; Hall, Kathleen,; Ivy, Marilyn,; John, Mary,; Mandel, Ruth,; Ndebele, Njabulo,; Reynolds, Pamela,; Shiraishi, Saya S.,; Stephens, Sharon,; Wee, Vivienne,; da Cunha, Manuela Carneiro,
• HerausgeberIn: Stephens, Sharon,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 18 line illustrations

The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years representing the domain of contemporary childhood as threatened, invaded, polluted, and "stolen" by adults. Through a series of essays that explore the global dimensions of children at risk, an international group of researchers and policymakers discuss the notion of children's rights, and in particular the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. Explorations of children's situations in Japan, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, England, Norway, the United States, Brazil, and Germany reveal how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in contemporary battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies. Throughout this volume, the authors address the complex and often ambiguous implications of the concept of rights. For example, it may be used to defend indigenous children from radically assimilationist or even genocidal state policies; but it may also be used to legitimate racist institutions. A substantive introduction by the editor examines global political economic frameworks for the cultural debates affecting children and traces intriguing, sometimes surprising, threads throughout the papers. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Norma Field, Marilyn Ivy, Mary John, Hae-joang Cho, Saya Shiraishi, Vivienne Wee, Pamela Reynolds, Kathleen Hall, Ruth Mandel, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, and Njabulo Ndebele.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHILDREN AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE -- Introduction Children and the Politics of Culture in "Late Capitalism" -- PART ONE: CHILDREN AND CHILDHOODS AT RISK IN THE "NEW WORLD ORDER" -- Chapter One The Child as Laborer and Consumer: The Disappearance of Childhood in Contemporary Japan -- Chapter Two Have You Seen Me? Recovering the Inner Child in Late Twentieth-Century America -- Chapter Three Children's Rights in a Free-Market Culture -- PART TWO: CHILDREN, CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND THE STATE -- Chapter Four Children in the Examination War in South Korea: A Cultural Analysis -- Chapter Five Children's Stories and the State in New Order Indonesia -- Chapter Six Children, Population Policy, and the State in Singapore -- Chapter Seven Youth and the Politics of Culture in South Africa -- PART THREE: CHILDREN AND THE POLITICS OF MINORITY CULTURAL IDENTITY -- Chapter Eight "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian": The Politics of Identity among British-Sikh Teenagers -- Chapter Nine Second-Generation Noncitizens: Children of the Turkish Migrant Diaspora in Germany -- Chapter Ten Children, Politics, and Culture: The Case of Brazilian Indians -- Chapter Eleven The "Cultural Fallout" of Chernobyl Radiation in Norwegian Sami Regions: Implications for Children -- PART FOUR: THE RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD? -- Chapter Twelve Recovering Childhood: Children in South African National Reconstruction -- Appendix The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- About the Contributors -- Index