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Global Childhoods in International Perspective gathers a wide spectrum of contributors from Europe, the U.S., South Asia, South Africa and Latin America, who, attuned with present dilemmas in the area of childhood studies, discuss some key theoretical and empirical aspects of child scholarship, such as identity, child wellbeing, child mobility and migration, intergenerational relationships and child abuse. Through these expert contributions, the book explores the many ways in which the relationship between universality and particularities of childhood plays an important role in describing global childhoods. The book highlights childhood as a cross-cutting issue in global sociology with chapters on globalization and schooling in Burkina Faso, child abuse and neglect in India, identity and integration among children of African immigrants in France, social class mobility of Filipino migrant children in Italy and France, and an investigation into Kyrgyz childhoods. Ideal reading for researchers, practitioners and students interested in both childhood studies and the other areas including community research, sociology of education, social stratification, and the sociology of migration.
Examining Child Mobility and Transport in South Africa : Challenges for Theory and Practice
Examining Child Mobility and Transport in South Africa : Challenges for Theory and Practice
Introduction
‘Defamiliarization of the familiar’ is about understanding the distinction between common sense and sociological thinking (Bauman and May cited in Jacobsen and Poder, 2008). The notion encapsulates the need to question or debunk some of the everyday common-sensical ideas or beliefs we hold, and in particular those resulting in social actions and behaviours that disempower, marginalize or exclude some individuals, social groups, social classes or communities. In thinking about such aspects, we raise questions about why and how we come to hold, reproduce and legitimatize harmful beliefs, actions and behaviours. This idea is important to our (re)thinking ...
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