'Time-Out' in the Land of Apu Childhoods, Bildungsmoratorium and the Middle Classes of Urban West Bengal

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Synopsis

​Within Childhood Research starkly different theoretical and empirical concerns characterize the global south-north divide. Hia Sen attempts to bridge the gap in Childhood Research which usually addresses childhoods differently according to their 'developing/developed', 'western/non-western' contexts, and finds its middle ground in the context of the urban middle classes in contemporary West Bengal. The author documents areas such as leisure practices and everyday lives of school children in India for three cohorts, where it is possible to have a comparative perspective of childhoods given the existing rich ethnographic and historical research on childhoods in other cultural contexts.

Book details

Edition:
2014
Author:
Hia Sen
ISBN:
9783658022235
Related ISBNs:
9783658022228
Publisher:
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2019-10-05
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2014
Copyright by:
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Sociology