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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812621803321

Titolo

Generations and globalization : youth, age, and family in the new world economy / / edited by Jennifer Cole & Deborah Durham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

9786612073021

1-282-07302-8

0-253-11223-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Tracking globalization

Altri autori (Persone)

ColeJennifer <1966->

DurhamDeborah Lynn <1958->

Disciplina

305.209/0511

Soggetti

Intergenerational relations

Age groups

Globalization - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Age, regeneration, and the intimate politics of globalization / Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham -- Chinese children, American education : globalizing child rearing in contemporary China / T.E. Woronov -- Continuity and change in San Pedro Tlalcuapan, Mexico : childhood, social reproduction, and transnational migration / Roger Magazine and Martha Areli Ramirez Sanchez -- Fresh contact in Tamatave, Madagascar : sex, money, and intergenerational transformation / Jennifer Cole -- Empowering youth : making youth citizens in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Aging across worlds : modern seniors in an Indian diaspora / Sarah Lamb -- Maintaining local dependencies : elderly women and global rehabilitation agendas in southeastern Botswana / Julie Livingston -- The old world and its new economy : notes on the "third age" in Western Europe today / Jessica Greenberg and Andrea Muehlebach.

Sommario/riassunto

""This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which                they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and                political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how                anthropology matters



to our understanding of the contemporary world and its global                restructuring."" -- Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern                UniversityGlobalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it                is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood