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Author Katz, Cindi, 1954- author.

Title Growing up global : economic restructuring and children's everyday lives / Cindi Katz.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-302) and index.
Contents Fluid dynamics -- A child's day in Howa -- The political economy and ecology of Howa village -- Social reproduction -- Children's work and play -- Knowing subjects/abstracting knowledge -- Disrupted landscapes of production and reproduction -- Displacements -- New York parallax; or, you can't drive a Chevy through a post-fordist landscape -- Howa at the end of the millennium -- Topographies of global capitalism -- The strange familiar -- Negotiating the recent future.
Summary Growing Up Global examines the processes of development and global change through the perspective of children's lives in two seemingly disparate places: New York City and a village in northern Sudan. At the book's core is a longitudinal ethnographic study of children growing up in a Sudanese village that was included in a large state-sponsored agricultural program in the year they were born. It follows a small number of children intermittently from ten years of age to early adulthood, concentrating particularly on their work and play, which together trained the children for an agrarian life centered around the family, a life that was quickly becoming obsolete. Shifting her focus to largely working-class families in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, Katz is able to expose unsuspected connections with the Sudanese experience in the effects on children of a constantly changing, capitalist environment--the decline of manufacturing jobs and the increase in knowledge-based jobs--in which young people with few skills and stunted educations face bleak employment prospects. In teasing out how "development" transforms the grounds on which these young people come of age, Cindi Katz provides a textured analysis of the importance of knowledge in the ability of people, families, and communities to reproduce themselves and their material social practices over time.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note All rights reserved.
Subject Rural children -- Sudan -- Social conditions.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Human reproduction -- Social aspects.
Economic development -- Social aspects.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 0816642095 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816642090 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816642109 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780816642106 (paperback)
Standard No. heb40255 hdl

 
    
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