Overview
- Opens new conversations about the intersection of modernity with issues of age, agency, and power
- Represents a range of disciplines and methods, including anthropology, history, psychology, and international relations
- Centralizes everyday modernities and the roles of these in the lives of young people
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Shaping Modern Subjects
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Being Modern Subjects
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About this book
This edited volume advances the conceptual framework of the 'everyday urban' to unpack the ways in which processes of modernity in India shape young subjects and, in so doing, centers the analytical categories of childhood and youth. In rejecting simplistic binaries of agency, and teleological logics of development and modernity, the authors focus on the complex pathways of negotiation and conflict that mark the lives of young people across various historical and contemporary contexts in urban India. Chapters are organized across two key themes: Shaping Modern Subjects and Being Modern Subjects, while spanning multiple disciplines including anthropology, history, sociology, disability studies, and psychology. Together, the contributions aim to advance the field of childhood and youth studies in South Asia and beyond.
Reviews
“Childhood and Youth in India: Engagements with Modernity powerfully explores the ‘everyday urban’ as a new conceptual and constructively critical approach to studying young peoples’ complex engagements with modernity in the Indian context. The original contributions made by the cross-disciplinary set of essays persuasively confirm the significance of children and childhoods to postcolonial theorizations of modern citizenship, national development, urbanization, and mediatized subjectivities.” (Sarada Balagopalan, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, USA)
“This volume brings together contemporary scholarship in the area of childhood and youth studies in the Indian context. Spanning historical essays to contemporary accounts, the volume responds to the need for critical analysis of existing frameworks in childhood studies and emerging questions of childhood and youth within neoliberal times. Using the ‘everyday urban’ as an analytical grid, the essays bring in themes related to education, social identities, and power, opening up new questions of experience, accommodation and resistance. It is an extremely significant contribution to the field and will undoubtedly soon find itself on reference lists of childhood/youth studies courses across universities.” (Nandini Manjrekar, Professor and Dean, School of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India)
“Invigorated by interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary debates in childhood and youth studies, this collection illuminates the quotidian workings of modernity and globalization in the lives of children and youth. The book contains excellent analysis that renders intelligible not just how young lives encounter, negotiate, and transform their social and material world but also adds new theoretical provocations on the effects that media, technology, education, skilling, and the project of nation-building engender on what it means to bea young person in modern urban India.” (Tatek Abebe, Professor in Childhood Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anandini Dar Anandini Dar is associate professor in School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University, India.
Divya Kannan is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Childhood and Youth in India
Book Subtitle: Engagements with Modernity
Editors: Anandini Dar, Divya Kannan
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31820-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31819-1Published: 25 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31822-1Due: 26 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-31820-7Published: 24 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 295
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Education, general, International and Comparative Education, Education, general