Children's Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives by Karen Fog Olwig,Eva Gullov

By Karen Fog Olwig,Eva Gullov

Children's Places examines the ways that kids and adults, from their diverse vantage-points in society, negotiate the 'proper position' of youngsters in either social and spatial phrases. It seems to be at many of the recognized structures of youngsters, together with views from cultures that don't distinguish young children as a different class of individuals, in addition to reading contexts for them, from colleges and kindergartens to internal towns and war-zones. the result's a much-needed perception into the notions of inclusion and exclusion, the situation and displacement of youngsters inside of generational ranks and orders, and the categories of areas that youngsters build for themselves.
Based on in-depth ethnographic learn from Europe, Asia, Africa, North the USA, Australia and New Zealand.

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