The Cultural Politics of ‘Childhood’ and ‘Nation’: Space, Mobility and a Global World

Millei, Zsuzsa

doi:10.2304/gsch.2014.4.3.137

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“…But while young people, as even a general category, are not often considered to be of social science interest and, at times, viewed as apolitical, the two-part 2014-15 special issue of Global Studies of Childhood reveals that it is through young people's engagement with nationalist discourses that ideals of the nation and good citizenship are shaped, feelings of belonging to a nation are constructed, and identifications as national citizens are framed (Beneï, 2008). Albeit understudied, the way they uphold, resist, and (re)inscribe the nation forms sensibilities about their world and themselves, as both youth and as adults, which shapes emerging notions around nationhood (Millei, 2015;Skey, 2009). Exploring how young people absorb national rhetoric and discourses around political events is therefore imperative for understanding the present and future of nation-states, as preadults will one day be responsible for (de)constructing democratic citizenries, supporting linguistically and culturally diverse societies, and policymaking at the top domestic and inter-state levels (Solano-Campos, 2015).…”

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Playing Near the Edge: An Analysis of Ukrainian Border Youths’ Engagement with the Euromaidan

Howlett

2020

Problems of Post-Communism

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While citizenries' responses to sociopolitical events are often studied, how youth engage with such happenings remains unclear. This article therefore analyzes 45 texts written by individuals under the age of eighteen in three of Ukraine's regions-Zakarpattia, Volyn, and Chernihiv-following the Euromaidan of 2013-14. The study reveals the ways young Ukrainians absorbed, upheld, and (re)inscribed national narratives and discourses in light of the demonstrations and subsequent war. Though it remains uncertain whether their feelings will be sustained into the future, the paper emphasizes the wide-reaching effects of sociopolitical happenings on a country's entire population.

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Playing Near the Edge: An Analysis of Ukrainian Border Youths’ Engagement with the Euromaidan

Howlett

2020

Problems of Post-Communism

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“…They exercise their political agency in diverse ways to situate themselves and their interests in relation to dominant ideologies, political projects, and conceptions and norms about childhood. Their self-representations and engagements with others reveal day-to-day lived experiences of the dominant discourses active in their particular social milieu (Millei, 2014). They also make strategic choices about how to situate and present their particular claims and demands to adult authority figures that reflect their awareness of relational power dynamics and power structures in society.…”

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‘Let’s hear how students feel …’: Representations of schooling on news television in India

Thapliyal

2015

Global Studies of Childhood

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The aim of this article is to posit children as political beings and becomings in every aspect of their lives including schooling. This discussion explores the multiplicity of ways in which children actively make meaning about themselves in relation to the actors, institutions and discourses that constitute their lived worlds. It is empirically grounded in critical media analysis of two 2009 prime-time English language television news programmes about school reform. Both these programmes presented ‘what kids think’1 through interactions between a total of 22 private secondary school students and Human Resources Development Minister, Kapil Sibal. The analysis draws on a relational reading of the politics in childhood as constituted and enacted in the domain of schooling. In this context, it focuses on how children perceive and negotiate the subject positions and subjectivities presented to them by their families, the state and media. More specifically, this article argues that children are aware of and competent to engage with extent power relations and structures as represented in discourses of schooling.

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“…Sobocinska (2017) studied the development of the figure of the western ‘humanitarian volunteer’ emerging in the 1960s and argues how it was part of a strategy to influence global geographies: Behind the ideal that young well-intentioned volunteers were changing the world for the better, there were undercurrents of colonialism and control that reinforced the division between developed and developing parts of the world. Although debates around the role and impact of current western volunteers in the developing world have proliferated (see Millei, 2015), detrimental forms of ‘voluntourism’ that perpetuate colonial economic and symbolic hierarchies are still very prevalent and naively reinforce negative images of helplessness and dependence (Ryan, 2015). Young volunteers working with children sometimes support the work of unscrupulous partner organisations that evoke sympathy for underprivileged children in order to attract resources.…”

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Volunteering for children or volunteering with children? A co-creation initiative to prepare student volunteers

Amigó¹,

Bilous

Rawlings-Sanaei

2019

Global Studies of Childhood

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This article delves into the controversies of student volunteers working around children in developing world contexts, by proposing a model where the organisations that send and those that receive volunteers can collaborate to ensure volunteers’ purposeful involvement. The article is based on the results of a collaborative initiative between an Australian university and its international non-governmental partner organisations who receive student volunteers through a university experiential learning programme. The authors of this article contest the universalisation of the concept of childhood, offer a critique of detrimental forms of international volunteering and then discuss a co-creation process between the university and its international non-governmental organisation partners that resulted in a series of training resources intended to shed light on three important issues for volunteers to consider: the complexity of defining who is a child and how a child should live, the challenges of child protection and the need to enable children’s empowerment. The resources generated during the co-creation process were turned into freely available online learning modules to enhance the value volunteers can add to the improvement of children’s lives around the world, and to their own communities upon return.

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The Cultural Politics of ‘Childhood’ and ‘Nation’: Space, Mobility and a Global World

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

Playing Near the Edge: An Analysis of Ukrainian Border Youths’ Engagement with the Euromaidan

Playing Near the Edge: An Analysis of Ukrainian Border Youths’ Engagement with the Euromaidan

‘Let’s hear how students feel …’: Representations of schooling on news television in India

Volunteering for children or volunteering with children? A co-creation initiative to prepare student volunteers

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