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‘Time-Out’ in the Land of Apu: Childhoods, Bildungsmoratorium and the Middle Classes of Urban West Bengal

By Hia Sen (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Year
2014
ISBN
978-3-658-02222-8, 978-3-658-02223-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-658-02223-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
72 MB (75563031 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
292\297
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-26 06:41:49
generalSociology

Description

​ Within Childhood Research starkly different theoretical and empirical concerns characterize the global south-north divide. Hia Sen attempts to bridge the gap in Childhood Research which usually addresses childhoods differently according to their 'developing/developed', 'western/non-western' contexts, and finds its middle ground in the context of the urban middle classes in contemporary West Bengal. The author documents areas such as leisure practices and everyday lives of school children in India for three cohorts, where it is possible to have a comparative perspective of childhoods given the existing rich ethnographic and historical research on childhoods in other cultural contexts.

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