Children and the Politics of Culture

By: Sharon Stephens (Editor)

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Paperback | 12 February 1996

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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 childhood as threatened, invaded, polluted, and "stolen" by adults. Through a series of essays that explore the global dimensions of children at risk, an international group of researchers and policymakers discuss the notion of children's rights, and in particular the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. Explorations of children's situations in Japan, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, England, Norway, the United States, Brazil, and Germany reveal how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in contemporary battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies.

Throughout this volume, the authors address the complex and often ambiguous implications of the concept of rights. For example, it may be used to defend indigenous children from radically assimilationist or even genocidal state policies; but it may also be used to legitimate racist institutions. A substantive introduction by the editor examines global political economic frameworks for the cultural debates affecting children and traces intriguing, sometimes surprising, threads throughout the papers. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Norma Field, Marilyn Ivy, Mary John, Hae-joang Cho, Saya Shiraishi, Vivienne Wee, Pamela Reynolds, Kathleen Hall, Ruth Mandel, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, and Njabulo Ndebele.

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"Through a series of essays that explore the global dimensions of children at risk, an international group of researchers and policymakers discuss the notion of children's rights, and in particular the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. This stimulating volume should interest social scientists across many fields, particularly anthropologists and area specialists, who will benefit from the largely ethnographically based studies it contains."--The Journal of Asian Studies

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Preface
Introduction: Children and the Politics of Culture in "Late Capitalism"
Children and Childhoods at Risk in the "New World Order"
The Child as Laborer and Consumer: The Disappearance of Childhood in Contemporary Japan	p. 51
Have You Seen Me? Recovering the Inner Child in Late Twentieth-Century America	p. 79
Children's Rights in a Free-Market Culture	p. 105
Children, Cultural Identity, and the State
Children in the Examination War in South Korea: A Cultural Analysis	p. 141
Children's Stories and the State in New Order Indonesia	p. 169
Children, Population Policy, and the State in Singapore	p. 184
Youth and the Politics of Culture in South Africa	p. 218
Children and the Politics of Minority Cultural Identity
"There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian": The Politics of Identity among British-Sikh Teenagers	p. 243
Second-Generation Noncitizens: Children of the Turkish Migrant Diaspora in Germany	p. 265
Children, Politics, and Culture: The Case of Brazilian Indians	p. 282
The "Cultural Fallout" of Chernobyl Radiation in Norwegian Sami Regions: Implications for Children	p. 292
The Recovery and Reconstruction of Childhood?
Recovering Childhood: Children in South African National Reconstruction	p. 321
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child	p. 335
About the Contributors	p. 353
Index	p. 357
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