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Durham, Deborah

 
9781934691052: Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth
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ISBN 10 : 1934691054 ISBN 13 : 9781934691052
Editeur : SAR Press, 2009

Synopsis

Child laborers in South Asia, child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Uganda, Chinese youth playing computer games to earn virtual gold, youth involved in sex trafficking in the former Soviet republics and Thailand: these are just some of the young people featured in the news of late. To address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this book look at the both the spatial relations and the temporal dimensions of globalization in places as far apart as Oakland, California, and Tamatave, Madagascar, in situations as disparate as the idealization of childhood innocence and the brutal lives of street children.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Child laborers in South Asia, child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Uganda, Chinese youth playing computer games for virtual gold, youth involved in sex trafficking in the Soviet republics and Thailand: these are just some of the young people featured in the news. The idea that young people are malleable and the truisms that "youth are the future" or "children are our hope for the future" give news and scholarly accounts added meaning. To address how and why youth has come to seem so important to globalization, this book looks at the spatial relations and the temporal dimensions of globalization in places as far apart as Oakland, California, and Tamatave, Madagascar, in situations as disparate as the idealization of childhood innocence and the brutal lives of street children. Discourses of, and practices by, youth and children, from the design of toys to political mobilization, are critical sites through which people conceive of, produce, contest, and naturalize the new futures.

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Éditeur
SAR Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1934691054
ISBN 13 
9781934691052
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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