Young People and Brazil’s Statute on the Right-to-the-City

Abstract

This book explores children's lives across the Global North and Global South in the context of academic discussions of childhoods. The edited volume offers a unique selection of materials suitable for teaching in the areas of children, childhoods, young people, families, and education in a global context, as well as specific aspects of international development and social policy. While the focus of the project is conceptual rather than practical, the holistic understanding of childhoods that it encourages should also enable practitioners to better ensure that they are improving the lives of the children.-- Exploring children's lives beyond the binary of the global North and global South / Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Michael Bourdillon, and Sylvia Meichsner -- Teaching "global childhoods" : from a cultural mapping of "them" to a diagnostic reading of "us/US" / Sarada Balagopalan -- "Child labour" and children's lives / Michael Bourdillon -- "Ours" or "theirs": locating the "criminal child" in relation to education in the postcolonial context of India / Chandni Basu -- Young people and Brazil's statute on the right-to-the-city / Adriana T. Cordeiro, Stuart C. Aitken, and Sergio C. Benicio de Mello -- "Family is everyone who comes through the doors of our home" : West African concepts of family bridging the North-South divide in the diaspora / Magnus Mfoafo M'Carthy and Bree Akesson -- "Disabled" versus "nondisabled" : another redundant binary? / Mary Wickenden -- Children's use of music in understanding time : perspectives from Singapore, Australia, and the US / Sara Stevens Zur -- Children's resilience and constructions of childhood : cross-cultural considerations / Carla Cribari-Assali -- Child protection across worlds : young people's challenges within and outside of child protection programmes in UK and Zanzibar schools / Rachel Burr and Franziska Fay -- Environment and children's everyday Lives in India and England : exploring children's situated perspectives on global-local environmental concerns / Catherine Walker -- Comparing children's care work across majority and minority worlds / Ruth Evans and Saul Becker -- Reflections on binary thinking / Michael Bourdillon, Sylvia Meichsner, and Afua Twum-Danso Imoh.