| 'Time-Out' in the Land of Apu: Childhoods, Bildungsmoratorium and the Middle Classes of Urban West Bengal 2014 Edition Contributor(s): Sen, Hia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3658022221 ISBN-13: 9783658022228 Publisher: Springer vs OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 301 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.94" W x 8.32" (0.86 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Within Childhood Research starkly different theoretical and empirical concerns characterize the global south-north divide. Hia Sen attempts to bridge the gap in Childhood Research which usually addresses childhoods differently according to their 'developing/developed', 'western/non-western' contexts, and finds its middle ground in the context of the urban middle classes in contemporary West Bengal. The author documents areas such as leisure practices and everyday lives of school children in India for three cohorts, where it is possible to have a comparative perspective of childhoods given the existing rich ethnographic and historical research on childhoods in other cultural contexts. |