Children and the Politics of Culture / / ed. by Sharon Stephens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Cho, Hae-joang,; Field, Norma,; Hall, Kathleen,; Ivy, Marilyn,; John, Mary,; Mandel, Ruth,; Ndebele, Njabulo,; Reynolds, Pamela,; Shiraishi, Saya S.,; Stephens, Sharon,; Wee, Vivienne,; da Cunha, Manuela Carneiro,
• HerausgeberIn: Stephens, Sharon,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 18 line illustrations

The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years representing the domain of contemporary...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• CHILDREN AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE
• Introduction Children and the Politics of Culture in "Late Capitalism"
• PART ONE: CHILDREN AND CHILDHOODS AT RISK IN THE "NEW WORLD ORDER"
• Chapter One The Child as Laborer and Consumer: The Disappearance of Childhood in Contemporary Japan
• Chapter Two Have You Seen Me? Recovering the Inner Child in Late Twentieth-Century America
• Chapter Three Children's Rights in a Free-Market Culture
• PART TWO: CHILDREN, CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND THE STATE
• Chapter Four Children in the Examination War in South Korea: A Cultural Analysis
• Chapter Five Children's Stories and the State in New Order Indonesia
• Chapter Six Children, Population Policy, and the State in Singapore
• Chapter Seven Youth and the Politics of Culture in South Africa
• PART THREE: CHILDREN AND THE POLITICS OF MINORITY CULTURAL IDENTITY
• Chapter Eight "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian": The Politics of Identity among British-Sikh Teenagers
• Chapter Nine Second-Generation Noncitizens: Children of the Turkish Migrant Diaspora in Germany
• Chapter Ten Children, Politics, and Culture: The Case of Brazilian Indians
• Chapter Eleven The "Cultural Fallout" of Chernobyl Radiation in Norwegian Sami Regions: Implications for Children
• PART FOUR: THE RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD?
• Chapter Twelve Recovering Childhood: Children in South African National Reconstruction
• Appendix The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
• About the Contributors
• Index