Children's places : cross-cultural perspectives / / edited by Karen Fog Olwig and Eva Gullov

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.23
• Soggetto topico: Socialization; Child rearing; Place (Philosophy)
• Altri autori: GullovEva OlwigKaren Fog <1948->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Towards an anthropology of children and place / Karen Fog Olwig and Eva Gulløv -- Creating a natural place for children : an ethnographic study of Danish kindergartens / Eva Gulløv -- Restricted experiences in a conflict society : the local lives of Belfast children / Laura Gilliam -- The Smith children go out to school - and come home again : place-making among Kuku-Yalanji children in Southeast Cape York, Australia / Francine Lorimer -- How will the children come home? Emplacement and the creation of the social body in an Ethiopian returnee settlement / Laura Hammond -- Growing up between places of work and non-places of childhood : the uneasy relationship / Olga Nieuwenhuys -- Common neighbourhoods - diversified lives : growing up in urban Norway / Hilde Lidén -- Associationless children : inner-city sports and local society in Denmark / Sally Anderson -- Changing place, changing position : orphans' movements in a community with high HIV/AIDS prevalence in western Kenya / Erick Otieno Nyambedha and Jens Aagaard-Hansen -- Sweet and bitter places : the politics of schoolchildren's orientation in rural Uganda / Lotte Meinert -- 'Imagined communities' : the local community as a place for 'children's culture' and social participation in Norway / Anne Trine Kjørholt -- Children's places of belonging in immigrant families of Caribbean background / Karen Fog Olwig -- Epilogue : children's places / Vered Amit.
• Sommario/riassunto: Children's Places examines the ways in which children and adults, from their different vantage-points in society, negotiate the 'proper place' of children in both social and spatial terms. It looks at some of the recognised constructions of children, including perspectives from cultures that do not distinguish children as a distinct category of people, as well as examining contexts for them, from schools and kindergartens to inner cities and war-zones. The result is a much-needed insight into the notions of inclusion and exclusion, the placement and displacement of children within ge
• Titolo autorizzato: Children's places
• ISBN: 1-135-14437-0; 0-203-60513-6; 1-299-28864-2; 1-135-14429-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792032603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II