Growing up global : economic restructuring and children's everyday lives / / Cindi Katz

• Autore: Katz Cindi <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.23/09624/091734
• Soggetto topico: Rural children - Sudan - Social conditions; Globalization - Social aspects; Human reproduction - Social aspects; Economic development - Social aspects; Economic development - Environmental aspects
• Classificazione: 71.35
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-302) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Fluid dynamics -- A child's day in Howa -- The political economy and ecology of Howa village -- Social reproduction -- Children's work and play -- Knowing subjects/abstracting knowledge -- Disrupted landscapes of production and reproduction -- Displacements -- New York parallax; or, you can't drive a Chevy through a post-fordist landscape -- Howa at the end of the millennium -- Topographies of global capitalism -- The strange familiar -- Negotiating the recent future.
• Sommario/riassunto: Growing Up Global examines global change through children's lives in two seemingly disparate places: New York City and Sudan.The book's core is a study of children in a Sudanese village that was included in a state-sponsored agricultural program. Shifting her focus to working-class families in New York City, Cindy Katz exposes connections with the Sudanese in the effects of a capitalist environment on children.
• Titolo autorizzato: Growing up global
• ISBN: 0-8166-9518-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819544703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II