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  title info:
    title: Inhabiting 'childhood'
    sub title: children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India
  name:
    name part: Balagopalan, Sarada
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Although 'multiple childhoods' recognizes children's lives as heterogeneous and culturally inscribed, the figure of the 'victimized' child continues to test the limits of this framework. Inhabiting 'Childhood' ambitiously redresses these limits by drawing on the everyday experiences of street children and child laborers in Calcutta to introduce the postcolony as a critical, and thus far absent, lens in theorizing the 'child.' Through capturing a moment in which global, national and local efforts combined to improve and transform these children's lives through school enrolment and new discourses of 'children's rights,' this ethnography makes a vital point about the complexity and contemporaneity of their extensive practices of dwelling generated by the exigencies of survival within postcolonial 'development.' These modes of living labour are central to comprehending why these children though desirous of the transition from labour to school, find this difficult to inhabit. This book argues that this difficulty, which can be neither dissolved through a 'cultural' understanding of these lives nor resolved within a more technocratic policy norm, is in fact a very productive opening to re-thinking 'childhood.'
  table of contents: Introduction -- Re-forming lives: the child on the street and the 'street child' -- Sedimenting labour through schooling: colonial state, native elite and working children in early twentieth-century India -- Memories of tomorrow: on children, labour and postcolonial 'development' -- The politics of failure: children's rights and the 'call of the other' -- 'A magic wand': reading the promise of the 'right to education' against the lives of working children -- Conclusion: growing up, moving on...
  note: Sarada Balagopalan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Street children
    geographic: India
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Child labor
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Education
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Child welfare
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
  subject:
    topic: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Child Development
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Multicultural Education
  classification: HV887.I4 B35 2014
  classification: 331.3/10954
  identifier: 9780230296428 (hardback)
  identifier: 0230296424 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014018474
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140516
    record change date: 20151206104033.0
    record identifier: in00003475040