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Children and NGOs in India - Development as Storytelling and Performance (Hardcover)
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Children and NGOs in India - Development as Storytelling and Performance (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA South Asian Series
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This book is an ethnographic exploration of slum children's
participation in NGO programs that centres children's narratives as
key to understanding the lived experience of development in India
where 50% of the population is under the age of 25. Weaving
theoretical and methodological interventions from anthropology,
childhood studies and development studies with children's own
narratives and images, the author foregrounds children's lifeworlds
whilst documenting the extent to which these lifeworlds are shaped
by the twin forces of marginalisation and aspiration. The book
documents NGO campaigns targeting child marriage, sanitation and
hygiene, gendered violence and bullying, and depicts and examines
children's sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes reluctant, and
sometimes indifferent approach to narrating and performing
development. It assesses the way in which children from four slum
communities in New Delhi navigate the multiplicities and
contradictions of development by analysing the stories, posters and
performances children produce for NGOs. Moreover, the book argues
that engagement with children's narratives and performances provide
valuable insights into how development attains meaning, garners
consensus, fails, succeeds and circulates in a myriad of unexpected
ways which consistently defy any assumptions about 'underdeveloped'
subjectivities. The first book to interrogate the substance and
subjectivities produced in the development of NGO organisations
offering extra-curricular programs directed towards more intangible
and experiential ends, it will be of interest to researchers
working in anthropology, development studies, childhood studies and
South Asian studies. The book also speaks to scholars working on
issues of poverty, rural-urban migration, gender justice, slums and
youth.
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