Children's Places

ISBN 10: 0415296404 / ISBN 13: 9780415296403

Published by Routledge, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children's Places
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415296404
• ISBN 13: 9780415296403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Children's Places examines the ways in which children and adults, from their different vantage-points in society, negotiate the 'proper place' of children in both social and spatial terms. It looks at some of the recognised constructions of children, including perspectives from cultures that do not distinguish children as a distinct category of people, as well as examining contexts for them, from schools and kindergartens to inner cities and war-zones. The result is a much-needed insight into the notions of inclusion and exclusion, the placement and displacement of children within generational ranks and orders, and the kinds of places that children construct for themselves.
Based on in-depth ethnographic research from Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

About the Author

Karen Fog Olwig is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is author of Global Culture, Island Identity (Harwood,1993) and co-editor of Work and Migration (Routledge, 2002)., Eva Gullov is a Senior Lecturer at the Danish University of Education in Copenhagen, and a co-founder of the Network for Cross-Cultural Child Studies.