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

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.209/0511
• Soggetto topico: Intergenerational relations; Age groups; Globalization - Social aspects
• Altri autori: ColeJennifer <1966-> DurhamDeborah Lynn <1958->
• 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 Ramírez Sánchez -- 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Generations and globalization
• ISBN: 9786612073021; 1-282-07302-8; 0-253-11223-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784670403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Tracking globalization.