Pillars of the nation [[electronic resource] ] : child citizens and Ugandan national development / / Kristen E. Cheney

• Autore: Cheney Kristen E
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.23096761/090511
• Soggetto topico: Children's rights - Uganda; Children - Uganda - Social conditions; Children and war - Uganda
• Soggetto non controllato: children, uganda, africa, ethnography, identity, power, war zones, music festivals, urban, school, childhood, empowerment, nation, human rights, politics, nonfiction, citizenship, education, academic achievement, rural, migration, disempowerment, engagement, political socialization, cultural production, displacement, generational conflict, social change, nationalism, anthropology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 itself
• Titolo autorizzato: Pillars of the nation
• ISBN: 1-281-95936-7; 0-226-10249-1; 9786611959364
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782436503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II