Child, Nation, Race and Empire: Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850-1915 - Couverture rigide

Hillel, Margot; Swain, Shurlee

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719078946 ISBN 13 : 9780719078941

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire.

It analyses the construction and transmission of nineteenth-century British child rescue ideology. Locating the origins of contemporary practice in the publications of the prominent English Child rescuers, Dr Barnardo, Thomas Bowman Stephenson, Benjamin Waugh, Edward de Montjoie Rudolf and their colonial disciples and literature written for children, it shows how the vulnerable body of the child at risk came to be reconstituted as central to the survival of nation, race and empire.

Yet, as the shocking testimony before the many official enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home 'care' held in Britain, Ireland, Australia and Canada make clear, there was no guarantee that the rescued child would be protected from further harm.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Margot Hillel is a Professor and Head of School at Australian Catholic University

Shurlee Swain is a Professor at Australian Catholic University and a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719078946
• ISBN 13: 9780719078941
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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