Book Symposium: Inhabiting Childhoodč: Children, Labour and Schooling in
Postcolonial India, by Sarada Balagopalan
Although 'multiple childhoods' recognizes children's lives as
heterogeneous and culturally inscribed, the figure of the 'victimized'
child continues to test the limits of this framework. Inhabiting
'Childhood'ambitiously redresses these limits by drawing on the everyday
experiences of street children and child labourers in Calcutta to
introduce the postcolony as a critical, and thus far absent, lens in
theorizing the 'child'. Through capturing a moment in which global,
national and local efforts combined to improve and transform these
children's lives through school enrolment and new discourses of
'children's rights', this ethnography makes a vital point about the
complexity and contemporaneity of their extensive practices of dwelling
generated by the exigencies of survival within postcolonial 'development'.
These modes of living labour are central to comprehending why these
children though desirous of the transition from labour to school, find
this difficult to inhabit. This book argues that this difficulty, which
can be neither dissolved through a 'cultural' understanding of these lives
nor resolved within a more technocratic policy norm, is in fact a very
productive opening to re-thinking 'childhoodč.
Join us for an evening discussion on Monday, June 23 2014, 6-9pm Birkbeck
University, Room 153, Malet Street
Discussants: Erica Burman (University of Manchester), Peggy Froerer
(Brunel University), Karen Wells (Birkbeck University)
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Dr. Peggy Froerer
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UK UB8 3PH
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