Full Description
Through a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit the transition from labour to schooling.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Re-Forming Lives: The Child on the Street and the 'Street Child' 3. Sedimenting Labour Through Schooling: Colonial State, Native Elite and Working Children in Early Twentieth Century India 4. Memories of Tomorrow: On Children, Labour and Postcolonial 'Development' 5. The Politics of Failure: Children's Rights and the 'Call of the Other' 6. 'A Magic Wand': Reading the Promise of the 'Right to Education' against the Lives of Working Children 7. Conclusion: Growing Up, Moving On...
