Format:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781447356424
Content:
Uses a wide range of international case studies form the Global South to examine the stark repercussions of colonial conquest on children's lives and childhood policy today. Liebel shows the work that we must do to decolonize childhoods globally and ensure that children's rights are better promoted and protected.
Content:
Front Cover -- Decolonizing Childhoods: From Exclusion to Dignity -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I How to understand childhoods in the postcolonial context -- 1 Childhoods from postcolonial perspectives -- Introduction -- Limitations of the Eurocentric childhood pattern -- Unequal global childhoods -- Agency in childhoods -- Notes -- 2 Colonialism and the colonization of childhoods -- Introduction -- Colonialization as a childhood project -- On the dialectic of education and power -- Colonization of childhoods -- Steps towards the decolonization of childhoods -- Notes -- 3 Postcolonial theories from the Global South -- Introduction -- Basic ideas of postcolonial theory -- African contributions to postcolonial theory -- Latin American contributions to postcolonial theory -- Conclusion and outlook -- Notes -- Part II Children under colonial and postcolonial rule -- 4 State violence against children in British Empire and former settler colonies -- Introduction -- The deportation of children as a contribution to colonial conquest -- Removal and assimilation of indigenous children in former settler colonies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Racist civilization of children in Latin America -- Introduction -- Racist arbitrariness against 'illegitimate' children -- 'Civilization' of indigenous and 'irregular' children -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Pitfalls of postcolonial education and child policies in Africa -- Introduction -- Children, childcare and school -- Dogmatic implementation of children's rights -- Paternalism and children's participation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III Children's rights and the decolonization of childhoods -- 7 Postcolonial dilemmas of children's rights -- Introduction -- Ambivalences of human rights.
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Language:
English
