Political children : violence, labor, and rights in Peru / Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luttrell-Rowland, Mikaela, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers--Peru--Lima--Social conditions.

Teenagers.

Teenagers--Political activity--Peru--Lima.

Children--Peru--Lima--Social conditions.

Children.

Children--Political activity--Peru--Lima.

Children's rights--Peru--Lima.

Children's rights.

Child labor--Peru--Lima.

Child labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Political Children argues for new methods of listening to marginalized young people so as to better understand everyday practices of state power and violence. Grounded in extensive interviews, longitudinal ethnography, historical analysis, and archival work, Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland shows how two separate groups of working young people in Lima, Peru, have become political protagonists, resisting and critiquing inequality and injustice. She details the ways they interpret and address a range of issues affecting their lives—from environmental degradation to second-rate public facilities, gender-based violence to dangerous working conditions—and reveals how by organizing and fighting systemic marginalization they make sense of state violence, and of their own labor. By attending to the affect, longing, and desires that animate these young people's politics, Luttrell-Rowland conveys the meaning of their lives and work in an economy that invokes their subjectivity and rights while rendering them non-participatory subjects. Though the lives of young people are often imagined as far from politics, these "political children" expose the contradictions of public policy narratives in which the Peruvian state is cast as a neutral site for engagement and action. Through their criticism and activism, the young people in this book demonstrate that such narratives divorce state power from the very places in which it is experienced as structural violence.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction Learning How to Describe the State

Part: I

1. Listening Between Generations

2. Deferred Promises

3. Stories of a Visual Landscape

Part: II

4. Young People Together

5. Child Workers and Child Citizens

Part: III

6. Looking for the State

Afterword

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Luttrell-Rowland, Mikaela Political Children

ISBN:

9781503634039

1503634035

OCLC:

1309291466