03394nam 2200661 a 450 991082183780332120200520144314.01-281-95936-70-226-10249-1978661195936410.7208/9780226102498(CKB)1000000000579405(EBL)408406(OCoLC)476228902(SSID)ssj0000221879(PQKBManifestationID)11187562(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000221879(PQKBWorkID)10161036(PQKB)10113371(MiAaPQ)EBC408406(DE-B1597)524207(OCoLC)1059002647(DE-B1597)9780226102498(Au-PeEL)EBL408406(CaPaEBR)ebr10266018(CaONFJC)MIL195936(EXLCZ)99100000000057940520061127d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPillars of the nation child citizens and Ugandan national development /Kristen E. Cheney1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (311 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-10248-3 0-226-10247-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.Introduction: the role of Ugandan child citizens in the struggle for national development -- Global rights discourses, national developments, and local childhoods -- Crucial components of child citizenship -- "Education for all": the dilemma of children's educational attainment, national development, and class mobility -- "Speaking the English of a Ugandan person": the intersections of children's identity formation -- Children's political socialization: engagement and disempowerment -- Actualizations -- "Village life is better than town life": identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens -- "Our children have only known war": the predicament of children and childhood in northern Uganda -- "Did the constitution produce my children!?" Cultural production and contestation in Uganda's national primary school music festivals -- Epilogue.How can children simultaneously be the most important and least powerful people in a nation? In her innovative ethnography of Ugandan children-the pillars of tomorrow's Uganda, according to the national youth anthem-Kristen E. Cheney answers this question by exploring the daily contradictions children face as they try to find their places amid the country's rapidly changing social conditions.Drawing on the detailed life histories of several children, Cheney shows that children and childhood are being redefined by the desires of a young country struggling to position itselfChildren's rightsUgandaChildrenUgandaSocial conditionsChildren and warUgandaChildren's rightsChildrenSocial conditions.Children and war305.23096761/090511Cheney Kristen E890534MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821837803321Pillars of the nation4079331UNINA