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  • - History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children
     
    434,-

    In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Here, the authors extract common threads in children's understandings of their material worlds, and show how the experience of modernity varies for young people.

  • - African American Girls and Inner City Violence
    av Nikki Jones
    434,-

    Shows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This title presents an account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called 'code of the street' - the form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas.

  • - Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand
    av Julie Spray
    474 - 1 795,-

  • - Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity
    av Laura Moran
    1 739,-

  • av Laurie Schaffner
    446,-

    Focuses on the girls' experiences of violence and the inequities of the criminal justice system. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile justice system, the author takes us inside female detention centers and explores the worlds of those who are incarcerated.

  • - Children Coping with Chronic Illness
    av Cindy Dell Clark
    410,-

    The author's 46 interviews with the families of children with chronic illness gives an understanding of how the children comprehend their illnesses and how parents struggle daily to care for their kids while trying to give them a ""normal"" childhood.

  • av Rachel Burr
    511,-

    Draws on the author's daily observations of working children in Hanoi and argues that the youngsters are misunderstood by the majority of agencies that seek to support them. Looking at the experiences of children in contemporary Vietnam, she provides an analysis of how internationally led human rights agendas are often received on the local level.

  • - Transforming Racial Baggage
    av Maria Kromidas
    434 - 1 621,-

    Cosmopolitanism - the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity - is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all.

  • - The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
    av Jean Hunleth
    494 - 1 547,-

    In Zambia, due to the rise of TB and the connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. This study examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realise that children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill and demonstrates why understanding children's care is crucial for global health policy.

  • - Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia
    av Abby Hardgrove
    423 - 1 346,-

    Explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight.

  • - Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development
    av Hannah Dyer
    334 - 1 602,-

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