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Author Cheney, Kristen E.

Title Pillars of the nation [electronic resource] : child citizens and Ugandan national development / Kristen E. Cheney.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Description x, 299 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Contents Introduction: the role of Ugandan child citizens in the struggle for national development -- Global rights discourses, national developments, and local childhoods -- Crucial components of child citizenship -- "Education for all": the dilemma of children's educational attainment, national development, and class mobility -- "Speaking the English of a Ugandan person": the intersections of children's identity formation -- Children's political socialization: engagement and disempowerment -- Actualizations -- "Village life is better than town life": identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens -- "Our children have only known war": the predicament of children and childhood in northern Uganda -- "Did the constitution produce my children!?" Cultural production and contestation in Uganda's national primary school music festivals -- Epilogue.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Children's rights -- Uganda.
Children -- Uganda -- Social conditions.
Children and war -- Uganda.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0226102475 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226102474 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226102483 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226102481 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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