"Brilliant and intimate. The book is an eloquent rendition of the
expansive spatial abstractions and mimetic revolutionary
re-imagination it proposes." -"Social and Cultural Geography"
"Growing Up Global" examines the processes of development and
global change through the perspective of children's lives in two
seemingly disparate places: New York City and a village in northern
Sudan. At the book's core is a longitudinal ethnographic study of
children growing up in a Sudanese village that was included in a
large state-sponsored agricultural program in the year they were
born. It follows a small number of children intermittently from ten
years of age to early adulthood, concentrating particularly on
their work and play, which together trained the children for an
agrarian life centered around the family, a life that was quickly
becoming obsolete.
Shifting her focus to largely working-class families in New York
City in the 1980s and 1990s, Katz is able to expose unsuspected
connections with the Sudanese experience in the effects on children
of a constantly changing, capitalist environment--the decline of
manufacturing jobs and the increase in knowledge-based jobs--in
which young people with few skills and stunted educations face
bleak employment prospects. In teasing out how "development"
transforms the grounds on which these young people come of age,
Cindi Katz provides a textured analysis of the importance of
knowledge in the ability of people, families, and communities to
reproduce themselves and their material social practices over time.
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