Colonial Childhoods

Colonial Childhoods
Author: Satadru Sen
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843311771

Colonial Childhoods is about the politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and the 1930s. It examines not only the redefinition of the 'child' in the cultural and intellectual climate of colonialism, but also the uses of the child, the parent and the family in colonizing and nationalizing projects. It investigates also the complications of transporting metropolitan discourses of childhood, adulthood and expertise across the lines of race. Focused on reformatories and laws for juvenile delinquents, and boarding schools for aristocratic children, it illuminates a vital area of conflict and accommodation in a colonial society. A key addition to Anthem's South Asian series and also to the growing discipline of Childhood and Colonial Childhood studies.

Colonial Childhoods

Colonial Childhoods
Author: Satadru Sen
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2005-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857287222

An exploration of the shaping of childhood in the colonial period.

Youth and Empire

Youth and Empire
Author: David M. Pomfret
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2015-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804796866

This is the first study of its kind to provide such a broadly comparative and in-depth analysis of children and empire. Youth and Empire brings to light new research and new interpretations on two relatively neglected fields of study: the history of imperialism in East and South East Asia and, more pointedly, the influence of childhood—and children's voices—on modern empires. By utilizing a diverse range of unpublished source materials drawn from three different continents, David M. Pomfret examines the emergence of children and childhood as a central historical force in the global history of empire in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book is unusual in its scope, extending across the two empires of Britain and France and to points of intense impact in "tropical" places where indigenous, immigrant, and foreign cultures mixed: Hong Kong, Singapore, Saigon, and Hanoi. It thereby shows how childhood was crucial to definitions of race, and thus European authority, in these parts of the world. By examining the various contradictory and overlapping meanings of childhood in colonial Asia, Pomfret is able to provide new and often surprising readings of a set of problems that continue to trouble our contemporary world.

Decolonizing Childhoods

Decolonizing Childhoods
Author: Liebel, Manfred
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2020-05-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447356411

European colonization of other continents has had far-reaching and lasting consequences for the construction of childhoods and children’s lives throughout the world. Liebel presents critical postcolonial and decolonial thought currents along with international case studies from countries in Africa, Latin America, and former British settler colonies to examine the complex and multiple ways that children throughout the Global South continue to live with the legacy of colonialism. Building on the work of Cannella and Viruru, he explores how these children are affected by unequal power relations, paternalistic policies and violence by state and non-state actors, before showing how we can work to ensure that children’s rights are better promoted and protected, globally.

Children in Colonial America

Children in Colonial America
Author: James Alan Marten
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814757162

Examining the aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late 16th and late 18th centuries, this text contains essays and documents that shed light on the ways in which the process of colonisation shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America.

Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories

Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories
Author: S. Aderinto
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137492937

This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children—one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule.

Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education

Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education
Author: Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-03-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317675118

Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education uncovers and interrogates some of the inherent colonialist tensions that are rarely acknowledged and often unwittingly rehearsed within contemporary early childhood education. Through building upon the prior postcolonial interventions of prominent early childhood scholars, Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education reveals how early childhood education is implicated in the colonialist project of predominantly immigrant (post)colonial settler societies. By politicizing the silences around these specifically settler colonialist tensions, it seeks to further unsettle the innocence presumptions of early childhood education and to offer some decolonizing strategies for early childhood practitioners and scholars. Grounding their inquiries in early childhood education, the authors variously engage with postcolonial theory, place theory, feminist philosophy, the ecological humanities and indigenous onto-epistemologies.

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
Author: Jessica Hinchy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 110849255X

Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.