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Children, Childhoods and Global Politics
Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli, Caitlin Mollica, Ana Alonso Soriano, Dustin Johnson, Anna Holzscheiter, …
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R2,140
Discovery Miles 21 400
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Though children have never been absent from international studies
discourse, they are too often reduced to a few simplistic and
unidimensional framings. This book seeks to recover children’s
agency and to recognise the complex variety of childhoods and the
global issues that affect them. Written by an international list of
contributors from Europe, Africa, North America and Australasia,
chapters present highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods
across global political time and space split into three broad
sections: imagined childhoods, governed childhoods and lived
childhoods. Through its analysis, the book demonstrates how IR is,
somewhat paradoxically, quite deeply invested in a particular
rendering of childhood as, primarily, a time of innocence,
vulnerability and incapacity.
A 2003 law in Eritrea, a notoriously closed-off, heavily
militarized, and authoritarian country, mandated an additional year
of school for all children and stipulated that the classes be held
at Sawa, the nation's military training center. As a result,
educational institutions were directly implicated in the making of
soldiers, putting Eritrean teachers in the untenable position of
having to navigate between their devotion to educating the nation
and their discontent with their role in the government program of
mass militarization. In her provocative ethnography, The Struggling
State, Jennifer Riggan examines the contradictions of state power
as simultaneously oppressive to and enacted by teachers. Riggan,
who conducted participant observation with teachers in and out of
schools, explores the tenuous hyphen between nation and state under
lived conditions of everyday authoritarianism. The Struggling State
shows how the hopes of Eritrean teachers and students for the
future of their nation have turned to a hopelessness in which they
cannot imagine a future at all.
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