Overview
- Presents chapters on several South American countries across a range of disciplines
- Explores childhoods from 1990 to the present day
- Stresses the importance of linking neoliberalisation processes in the region with the exercising of children's rights
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Situating the Children’s Rights Approach: Discursive and Material Conflicts in South American Scenarios
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South American Schools: The Inner and Outer Courtyards of the Educational Systems in Neoliberalised Contexts
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South American Childhoods, Migration and Neoliberalisation: The Search for Less Precarious Scenarios
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About this book
This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning—or intensification of—political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children’s rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration.
Reviews
“Children do not belong to another species, nor do they live in another world. On the contrary, they share risks and advantages with other human beings at the same historical moment. This book looks at South American childhoods starting from analysis of the social, political, and economic structures of the last thirty years, providing a great contribution for the study of children’s lives traversed by structural conditions, be it on some or on other continents.”
—Lourdes Gaitán, Founding Member of Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence Group (GSIA) and Co-Director of Sociedad e Infancias
—Adrian L. James, Emeritus Professor, Applied Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK“An exciting and significant intervention into childhood studies. The volume at once offers rich, textured, and vivid accounts of processes of neoliberalisation as they shape South American children and childhoods—and their unequal, violent, and punitive effect—at the same time as extending and complicating childhood studies, animated by the rich history of South American socio-cultural approaches to childhood. In the process, contributors offer novel ways of understanding human rights, nation, social reproduction, and generation in neoliberal contexts.”
—Rachel Rosen, Associate Professor of Childhood, UCL Social Research Institute, UK
"This book seizes new spaces to critique neo-liberalism from the vantage point of Latin American children. This continent experienced devastating swings between authoritarian regimes and the authors describe superbly the impacts on children on such crucial issues as child labour, migration, and children out of school. Children are often omitted from the Latin American political analyses. This book, with great skill and insight, gets them back into the picture."
—Irene Rizzini, Professor, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and President of the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI), Brazil
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ana Vergara del Solar is Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, Universidad de Santiago, Chile.
Valeria Llobet is Professor in the School of Humanities, Universidad de San Martin, Argentina. She is also a researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina.
Maria Letícia Nascimento is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: South American Childhoods
Book Subtitle: Neoliberalisation and Children’s Rights since the 1990s
Editors: Ana Vergara del Solar, Valeria Llobet, Maria Letícia Nascimento
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78949-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78948-0Published: 07 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78951-0Published: 08 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78949-7Published: 06 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Education, general, Latin American Culture, Political Science, Migration, Migration