UID:
almafu_9960118984002883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 277 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4473-5643-8
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1-4473-5644-6
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1-4473-5642-X
Series Statement:
Policy Press scholarship online
Content:
European colonization of other continents has had far-reaching and lasting consequences for the construction of childhoods and children's lives throughout the world. Liebel presents critical postcolonial and decolonial thought currents along with international case studies from countries in Africa, Latin America, and former British settler colonies to examine the complex and multiple ways that children throughout the Global South continue to live with the legacy of colonialism. Building on the work of Cannella and Viruru, he explores how these children are affected by unequal power relations, paternalistic policies and violence by state and non-state actors, before showing how we can work to ensure that children's rights are better promoted and protected, globally.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021).
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Conclusion: Ways out of postcolonial dilemmas -- Notes -- 8 Beyond paternalism: Plea for the de-paternalization of children's protection and participation -- Introduction -- How to understand paternalism -- Paternalism against children -- Paternalism and children's rights -- Child protection between paternalism and participation -- Children's participation between paternalism and protagonism -- Conclusion: Beyond paternalism -- Notes -- 9 Children's movements as citizenship from below -- Introduction -- What does citizenship mean? -- Ambivalences and contradictions of citizenship
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Ambivalences of human rights -- Universality claim and cultural reference of children's rights -- Best interests assessments in the pitfalls of universalism and cultural relativism -- Case studies on dilemmas of children's rights -- Dilemmas due to different concepts of children's rights: the case of Vietnam -- Dilemmas due to unequal positions of children and adults: the case of Calcutta, India -- Dilemmas due to unequal local power relations: the case of Yokyakarta, Indonesia -- Dilemmas due to unequal international power structure: the case of Bolivia
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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
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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
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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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-5641-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-5640-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781447356424
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447356424/type/BOOK
