This handbook explores how global development agendas of economic development influence childrens lives. From established scholars and early career researchers, this book will be an essential reference for policymakers, practitioners, researchers and students across childhood studies, education, geography, sociology, and global development.
The Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and processes of economic development influence childrens lives. It demonstrates that children are not only the frequent targets or objects of development but that they also shape and influence processes of economic, political and sociocultural development.
The handbook makes the case for the importance of placing children at the heart of development debates and demonstrates how researchers, policymakers and practitioners can engage children in development. Through reports on field research as well as a critical engagement with theories in development studies and childhood studies, contributors contest normative assumptions about childhood and global development. They tease out and tease apart the complex social, historical, cultural, economic, epidemiological, ecological, geopolitical, and institutional processes transforming what it means to be young in the world today.
Showcasing research from both established scholars and early career researchers, and with particular prominence given to the work of authors from the global south, this book will be an essential reference for policymakers, practitioners, and for researchers and students across childhood studies, education, geography, sociology, and global development.
Childhood Studies and Global Development - Introduction Section 1:
Researching Childhood and Development
1. Section Introduction
2. The
Dispersed Child: Indian Children and their Archival Presence in Missionary
Collections
3. Development Research with Children from A Decolonial
Perspective: Experimentation with Knowledge and Learning to Think Otherwise
4. Participatory Knowledge Co-Generation with Children: Ethics and Politics
of Engagement
5. Ethics and Consent in Research with Children and Young
People in Global Development
6. Visual Research
7. Using a Mixed Methods
Approach to Identify Pathways to Adolescent Girl Empowerment Section 2:
Political activism and development
8. Section Introduction
9. Political
Socialization in Militarized State: Youth in Armed Conflict of Indian
Administered Kashmir
10. New Readings for Palestinian Children and Youths
Experiences During the British Mandate: the Birth of Childrens Political
Agency
11. Capitalism Doesnt Empower Me: Latin American Childrens
Activism and Critiques of Neoliberal Development
12. Children as
Environmental Actors: a Generational Perspective on Climate Activism in an
Overheated World
13. Colombian Child-Soldiers and Their Status as Political
Actors Section 3: Migration, Children, and Development
14. Section
Introduction
15. Exclusionary Locales of Migration and Education in India:
Situating Heterogeneous Manifestations of NGO Schooling
16. Childrens health
and well-being in the context of parental migration: the case of Southeast
Asia
17. The Politics of Unaccompanied Child Migration at the U.S./Mexico
Border
18. Transnational Migration and Childhood, Social Reproduction and
Economic Crisis Section 4: Health, Gender Norms, and Development
19. Section
Introduction
20. Sexual Violence Against Children
21. Navigating Social and
Gender Norms in Early Childhood - a Case Study in a Flood-Prone Area in
Amazonian Peru
22. Influence of Policies on Early Adolescent's Sexual and
Reproductive Health
23. Sexuality, Bodies and Desire through the Schooling of
Girls
24. Children and Adolescents Living with and Affected by HIV in African
Countries: Converging Crises, Vulnerability, and Resilience Section 5:
Governing Childhoods: Law and Rights
25. Section Introduction
26. Child
Rights Governance in International Development
27. The Politics of Child
Rights: Protecting the World-Child, Governing the Future
28. The Global
Politics of Child Labour: A Critical Analysis
29. Disability and Education
Under Conflict and Crisis in the Global South
30. Explaining Variation in
Compliance with Anti-FGM and Child Marriage Law in Burkina Faso
31. A
Critical Reflection on Ghanas Childhood, Child Rights and Child Labour
Governance Modalities: A Case Study of Abolitionist Discourses and Practices
on Childrens Work in the Fishing Sector Section 6: Childhood and Social
Reproduction
32. Section Introduction
33. Gendered Navigations of Space, Work
and Education in Young Adivasi Lives in India
34. Skilling Educated Youth
for Insecure Employment in the Informal Economy
35. Mothers Reflections on
Generational Changes in Childhood in a Mayan Town: Globalisation Challenges
to Convivencia/Togetherness
36. Children as Agents of Change to Reach the
Water Security Sustainable Development Goal in the Climate Crisis
37. Early
Childhood Education in Turkana Pastoralist Communities of Kenya
38. From
Post-Development to Post-Schooling: Rethinking Educational Pathways with
Agro-pastoralists in Southwest Ethiopia Section 7: Culture, Childhood and
Development
39. Section Introduction
40. Language Policy, Development and
Translanguaging in Africa
41. Childrens Play Cultures in West Africa
42. The
Role of Videogames in The Socio-Cultural Life of Children in Peru
43. Sport
for Development
44. Resisting State-Sponsored Oppression through Applied
Theatre: A Brazilian case study
Tatek Abebe is a Professor of Childhood Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he teaches postgraduate courses on cultural epistemologies of childhood, development, global south childhoods and youth, participatory methodologies and ethics. His ethnographic research examines how young people are affected by and shape the political-economic environment they inhabit, with an emphasis on their activism, inter-generational relationships, care, livelihoods, labouring and learning.
Anandini Dar is Associate Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University (BMU). She is the co-founder and co-convener of the Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (CCYSC), and serves as the advisory board member of The Childism Institute, at the Rutgers University, USA. She also serves on the international editorial board of the journal Childrens Geographies, Taylor & Francis, and is the Series Editor of Studies in Childhood and Youth for Palgrave Macmillan. Dr. Dars areas of research intersect childhood studies, development studies, sociology, education, and feminist studies. She has published on the topics of childrens rights, politics, migration, de-colonialism, and youth.
Karen Wells is a Professor of International Development and Childhood Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She has over twenty years of experience in research on the intersection between international political economy and socio-cultural fields in the formation of childhood. She has published widely on this research.