Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods

Provides new insights into the social and emotional impacts of neoliberalism on children's personal relationships, intimate lives and identities

Contributes to debates on cultural diversity and intercultural engagement among children and young people

Combines inter-disciplinary scholarship across the sociology and anthropology of childhood, economy, intimacy and emotions

Provides a new conceptual framework for understanding children's everyday negotiation of economic insecurity, difference and belonging Offers deep insights into how inequality shapes the everyday lives of diverse children in rural contexts A lucid and engaging ethnography consisting of extensive qualitative research data with children and young people

Autorentext

Rose Butler is a postdoctoral researcher at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. Her research crosses the disciplines of Sociology, Youth Studies and Anthropology with a focus on class and culture, multiculturalism and globalisation, schooling and social change, and rural livelihoods. Her current postdoctoral project investigates the changing landscape of rural multicultures for youth. Rose is co-editor of the Special Issue 'Asian Migration and Education Cultures in the Anglo-Sphere' in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and has published with journals including the Journal of Youth Studies, Journal of Sociology and the Journal of Intercultural Studies. She has a PhD from the Australian National University.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Children in an Insecure Economy.- Chapter 2. Economy, Identity and Fairness.- Chapter 3. Researching Childhoods.- Chapter 4. Going without: dignity and resentment.- Chapter 5. Staying within: politics of difference.- Chapter 6. Cutting down: entitlement and solidarity.- Chapter 7: Stigma and boundary work.- Conclusion.