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The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are
under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news
headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of
children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years
representing the domain of contemporary childhood as threatened,
invaded, polluted, and "stolen" by adults. Th... More

The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are
under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news
headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of
children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years
representing the domain of contemporary childhood as threatened,
invaded, polluted, and "stolen" by adults. Through a series of essays
that explore the global dimensions of children at risk, an
international group of researchers and policymakers discuss the notion
of children's rights, and in particular the claim that every child has
a right to a cultural identity. Explorations of children's situations
in Japan, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, England, Norway, the United
States, Brazil, and Germany reveal how children's everyday lives and
futures are often the stakes in contemporary battles that adults wage
over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural
policies.

Throughout this volume, the authors address the
complex and often ambiguous implications of the concept of rights. For
example, it may be used to defend indigenous children from radically
assimilationist or even genocidal state policies; but it may also be
used to legitimate racist institutions. A substantive introduction by
the editor examines global political economic frameworks for the
cultural debates affecting children and traces intriguing, sometimes
surprising, threads throughout the papers. In addition to the editor,
the contributors are Norma Field, Marilyn Ivy, Mary John, Hae-joang
Cho, Saya Shiraishi, Vivienne Wee, Pamela Reynolds, Kathleen Hall,
Ruth Mandel, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, and Njabulo
Ndebele.

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