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Globalization and Children

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

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  1. Natalie Hevener Kaufman

    1. University of South Carolina, Columbia

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  2. Irene Rizzini

    1. Universidade Santa Ursula, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Global Perspective

    1. The Impact of Global Economic, Political, and Social Transformations on the Lives of Children

      • Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Irene Rizzini, Kathleen Wilson, Malcolm Bush
      Pages 3-18

    2. Globalization in Cross-Cultural Perspective

      • Virginia Murphy-Berman, Natalie Hevener Kaufman
      Pages 19-29

    3. The Status of Children in International Law

      • Natalie Hevener Kaufman
      Pages 31-45

    4. Democratization and Children’s Lives

      • Gary B. Melton
      Pages 47-67

  3. Global Trends in Children’s Lives

    1. Children and Family Life

      • Arlene Bowers Andrews
      Pages 71-80

    2. Civic Participation by Children and Youth

      • Susan P. Limber, Natalie Hevener Kaufman
      Pages 81-90

    3. The Effects of Political and Economic Transformations on Children

      • Louise Chawla
      Pages 91-97

    4. Children and the Media

      • Brian Wilcox
      Pages 99-106

    5. Developmental-Ecological Considerations

      • Ross Thompson
      Pages 107-114

  4. Applying the Lens of Global Change to the Actual Lives of Children

    1. The Transition to “Democracy” in Latin America

      • Elaine C. Lacy
      Pages 117-127

    2. Promises Kept, Promises Broken

      • Irene Rizzini, Gary Barker
      Pages 129-149

    3. The Effects of Structural Adjustment Programs on the Lives of Children in Jamaica

      • Sian Williams
      Pages 151-160

  5. Conclusions

    1. Conclusions

      • Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Irene Rizzini
      Pages 163-165

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 167-176
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of South Carolina, Columbia

    Natalie Hevener Kaufman

  • Universidade Santa Ursula, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Irene Rizzini

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Globalization and Children

  • Book Subtitle: Exploring Potentials for Enhancing Opportunities in the Lives of Children and Youth

  • Authors: Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Irene Rizzini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b105305

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47368-5Published: 30 November 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7646-1Published: 20 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47925-0Published: 08 May 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 176

  • Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Child and School Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology

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