Children and Globalization

Promoting peace, yet sustaining conflict? A fantasy‐theme analysis of Seeds of Peace publications

“…Although this is not addressed specifically by this research, we must also be cautious that we do not disempower children in both our words and actions (Peteet 2005). Fass (2003), for example, indicates that while there has recently been a stronger focus on youth in conflict regions, young people still have not been given a genuine opportunity to speak. For the most part, the emphasis is currently on isolating, protecting, sheltering, suppressing and victimizing the children who live in countries at war (for this critique, see MacCormack 1999;Stohl 2002;Wessells 1998).…”

Pedophilia

“…Historian Fass (2003) hypothesises that as the pace of change in almost every society has increased due to globalisation, general anxiety about such changes is displaced to the symbolically sensitive area about our concern for protection of children [53]. Law enforcement agencies have responded to such changes in the social outlook by tightening not just the laws but also procedures in dealing with these cases.…”

Adam’s escape: Children and the discordant nature of colonial conversions

“…Well into the 20th century, the average working-class child in Europe also worked several hours daily, but already in the late 19th century, ideals of childhood in which the child was separated from economic productivity had begun to emerge among the middle classes of the West (Fass, 2003;Zelizer, 1985). It is likely that many of the missionary friends, who supported the mission financially, would have shared these emerging ideals.…”