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Generations and Globalization - Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy

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Informationen zum Autor edited by Jennifer Cole, Deborah Durham Klappentext Woronov. Zusammenfassung Globalization is inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood! care! and the daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan Africa! Madagascar! Mexico! the US! Europe! India! and China! this book investigates the impact of globalization in the context of families! age groups! and intergenerational relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Age, Regeneration, and the Intimate Politics of GlobalizationJennifer Cole and Deborah Durham 1. Chinese Children, American Education: Globalizing Child Rearing in Contemporary ChinaT. E. Woronov 2. Continuity and Change in San Pedro Tlalcuapan, Mexico: Childhood, Social Reproduction, and Transnational MigrationRoger Magazine and Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez 3. Fresh Contact in Tamatave, Madagascar: Sex, Money, and Intergenerational TransformationJennifer Cole 4. Empowering Youth: Making Youth Citizens in BotswanaDeborah Durham 5. Aging across Worlds: Modern Seniors in an Indian DiasporaSarah Lamb 6. Maintaining Local Dependencies: Elderly Women and Global Rehabilitation Agendas in Southeastern BotswanaJulie Livingston 7. The Old World and Its New Economy: Notes on the "Third Age" in Western Europe TodayJessica Greenberg and Andrea Muehlebach List of Contributors Index

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Authors Jennifer Durham Cole
Assisted by Jennifer Cole (Editor), Deborah Durham (Editor)
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 08.11.2006
 
EAN 9780253218704
ISBN 978-0-253-21870-4
No. of pages 240
Series Tracking Globalization
Tracking Globalization
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology

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