Globalization and Children: Exploring Potentials for Enhancing Opportunities in the Lives of Children and Youth

Rizzini, I

ISBN 10: 1475776462 / ISBN 13: 9781475776461

Published by Springer, 2002

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9781475776461.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Globalization and Children: Exploring Potentials for Enhancing Opportunities in the Lives of Children and Youth
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475776462
• ISBN 13: 9781475776461
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 450 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Sciences

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Synopsis

ALLISON JAMES Globalization seems to be the word on everyone’s lips, with politicians as much as academics extolling its benefits as well as its contradictions. For some, globali- tion means, in practice, that whether in Bangkok or Boston, in London or Rio, as travelers from wealthy countries they can be sure to find the beer, the pizzas, and the jeans that they can at home; they can be both at home and away simulta- ously. For others, though, globalization has had rather different, often less bene- cial, consequences. In their everyday lives people have come to find themselves tied in, albeit in often unseen ways, into larger economic and political systems over which they have no control; yet these systems cause radical changes—often for the worse rather than the better—in the pattern of their daily lives. And it is those who have least voice whose lives are usually affected the most. In this book attention is drawn systematically—really for the first time—to a consideration of how processes of globalization variously impact upon the lives of children. Such an approach is not only most welcome in the field of childhood studies, but also long overdue. It will, at last, enable us to begin to contextualize in a broader framework some of the many issues to do with ch- dren’s rights and participation which have long been discussed as separate and discrete issues within childhood studies.