Colonialism and African Childhood

Alanamu, Temilola; Carton, Benedict; Lawrance, Benjamin N.

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“…These absences are not novel: over the years, the role of African children as rights bearers has remained mostly invisible. Aderinto (2015), Alanamu et al (2018) and Twum‐Danso Imoh (2016) discuss the roles of African children and the importance of rethinking their absences as part of a discipline that aims to position African children and childhoods in their geographical, political and historical contexts. Similarly, Honwana and Boeck (2005) argue for the inclusion of young people in knowledge production as both makers and breakers.…”

Section: The Impacts Of Covid‐19 On Children: Where Are the African C...mentioning

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Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique

Pastore

Salvi

2022

Children & Society

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Social distancing, one of the measures adopted in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic, profoundly impacted on the lives of children. The consequences were, however, not homogenous. By focusing on the daily practices of 41 Mozambican children aged 3–10, we consider how differences in socioeconomic backgrounds led children to respond to the social restrictions in ways that made sense to them. Inspired by Abebe (2019), we identify how the interruptions of daily routines enabled specific instances of agency on children's part. These, we argue, produce new forms of continuity.

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Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique

Pastore

Salvi

2022

Children & Society

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“…We argue that these contemporary debates represent a historical continuity from first contact in which representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are used and contested in the ongoing process of 'settling' colonial Australia. While our empirical analysis is specific to the continent of Australia, we sustain a theorisation of childhood that adds to critical scholarship on racialized and colonised children globally (Alanamu et al, 2018;Alexander, 2016;Balagopalan, 2014;Hinton, 2021;Meiners, 2016). As this theorisation of childhood reveals, efforts to exclude Indigenous peoples and their children from democratic politics out of fear of the risks they pose to the polity restricts their transformative potential in renewing democracy over successive generations.…”

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Political Representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth in Australia

Nakata

Bray

2023

Studies in Childhood and Youth

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Political representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and youth reflect the deep ambivalences Australian society continues to hold toward First Nations people. This chapter explores these ambivalences by considering two key representative fields concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in recent years, which serve to illustrate our thesis that children play a constitutive role as temporary outsiders who present both risk and renewal to the demos (Bray & Nakata, The Figure of the Child in Democratic Politics. Contemporary Political Theory, 19, 20. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00319-x, 2020). The first focuses on the Northern Territory Don Dale Youth Detention Centre that became the site of political controversy in 2016 for its mistreatment of youth detainees. The second explores a 2020 campaign by the conservative Liberal National Party in a recent Queensland state election to implement a youth curfew in the cities of Townsville and Cairns, that have a high number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents. As evidenced by these debates about youth crime and incarceration, we argue that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are often represented as a source of risk which lies in tension with and forecloses the transformative potential of representing Indigenous children as sources of renewal. These cases reveal the representative terrain in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people must resist and speak back to a white national imaginary that works to limit the possible futures that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples imagine for themselves.

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Family and labour in an Angolan cash-crop economy, 1910

Vos

2023

The History of the Family

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Colonialism and African Childhood

Cited by 4 publications

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Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique

Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique

Political Representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth in Australia

Family and labour in an Angolan cash-crop economy, 1910

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