Decolonizing childhoods : from exclusion to dignity / Manfred Liebel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liebel, Manfred, 1940- author.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Social conditions.

Children.

Colonization--Social aspects.

Colonization.

Imperialism--Social aspects.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Conclusion: Ways out of postcolonial dilemmas

Notes

8 Beyond paternalism: Plea for the de-paternalization of children's protection and participation

Introduction

How to understand paternalism

Paternalism against children

Paternalism and children's rights

Child protection between paternalism and participation

Children's participation between paternalism and protagonism

Conclusion: Beyond paternalism

9 Children's movements as citizenship from below

What does citizenship mean?

Ambivalences and contradictions of citizenship

Ambivalences of human rights

Universality claim and cultural reference of children's rights

Best interests assessments in the pitfalls of universalism and cultural relativism

Case studies on dilemmas of children's rights

Dilemmas due to different concepts of children's rights: the case of Vietnam

Dilemmas due to unequal positions of children and adults: the case of Calcutta, India

Dilemmas due to unequal local power relations: the case of Yokyakarta, Indonesia

Dilemmas due to unequal international power structure: the case of Bolivia

Conclusion

5 Racist civilization of children in Latin America

Racist arbitrariness against 'illegitimate' children

'Civilization' of indigenous and 'irregular' children

Conclusion

6 Pitfalls of postcolonial education and child policies in Africa

Children, childcare and school

Dogmatic implementation of children's rights

Paternalism and children's participation

Part III Children's rights and the decolonization of childhoods

7 Postcolonial dilemmas of children's rights

Introduction

Steps towards the decolonization of childhoods

3 Postcolonial theories from the Global South

Basic ideas of postcolonial theory

African contributions to postcolonial theory

Latin American contributions to postcolonial theory

Conclusion and outlook

Part II Children under colonial and postcolonial rule

4 State violence against children in British Empire and former settler colonies

The deportation of children as a contribution to colonial conquest

Removal and assimilation of indigenous children in former settler colonies

Front Cover

Decolonizing Childhoods: From Exclusion to Dignity

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Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgments

Part I How to understand childhoods in the postcolonial context

1 Childhoods from postcolonial perspectives

Limitations of the Eurocentric childhood pattern

Unequal global childhoods

Agency in childhoods

2 Colonialism and the colonization of childhoods

Colonialization as a childhood project

On the dialectic of education and power

Colonization of childhoods

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447356431

1447356438

9781447356448

1447356446

9781447356424

144735642X

OCLC:

1153875189