Kamal Fahmi
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774160639
- eISBN:
- 9781617971020
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774160639.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Street children—abandoned or runaway children living on their own—can be found in cities all over the world, and their numbers are growing despite numerous international programs aimed at helping ...
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Street children—abandoned or runaway children living on their own—can be found in cities all over the world, and their numbers are growing despite numerous international programs aimed at helping them. All too frequently, these children are viewed solely as victims or deviants to be rescued and rehabilitated. This book draws on eight years of fieldwork with street children in Cairo to portray them in a much different—and empowering—light. The book argues that, far from being mere victims or deviants, these children, in running away from alienating home lives and finding relative freedom in the street, are capable of actively defining their situations in their own terms. They are able to challenge the roles assigned to children, make judgments, and develop a network of niches and resources in a teeming metropolis such as Cairo. It is suggested that social workers and others need to respect the agency the children display in changing their own lives. In addition to collective advocacy with and on behalf of street children, social workers should empower them by encouraging their voluntary participation in non-formal educational activities.Less
Street children—abandoned or runaway children living on their own—can be found in cities all over the world, and their numbers are growing despite numerous international programs aimed at helping them. All too frequently, these children are viewed solely as victims or deviants to be rescued and rehabilitated. This book draws on eight years of fieldwork with street children in Cairo to portray them in a much different—and empowering—light. The book argues that, far from being mere victims or deviants, these children, in running away from alienating home lives and finding relative freedom in the street, are capable of actively defining their situations in their own terms. They are able to challenge the roles assigned to children, make judgments, and develop a network of niches and resources in a teeming metropolis such as Cairo. It is suggested that social workers and others need to respect the agency the children display in changing their own lives. In addition to collective advocacy with and on behalf of street children, social workers should empower them by encouraging their voluntary participation in non-formal educational activities.
Susan C. Mapp
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195339710
- eISBN:
- 9780199863686
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195339710.003.0002
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Reasons for children to engage in labor are discussed including poverty, gender roles and political conflict. Types of labor examined include street children, working on farms, in factories or mines, ...
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Reasons for children to engage in labor are discussed including poverty, gender roles and political conflict. Types of labor examined include street children, working on farms, in factories or mines, or in the sex trade. The vast majority of children work in agriculture; children in countries as varied as India, Ecuador and the United States are performing work too strenuous for their developing bodies, using dangerous equipment meant for adults and are exposed to toxic pesticides. The issue of child labor involved in chocolate production is included as well. Types of work performed by street children, children in factories and mining are also examined, as well as children who choose to participate in the sex trade. Suggestions for the reduction of child labor are analyzed.Less
Reasons for children to engage in labor are discussed including poverty, gender roles and political conflict. Types of labor examined include street children, working on farms, in factories or mines, or in the sex trade. The vast majority of children work in agriculture; children in countries as varied as India, Ecuador and the United States are performing work too strenuous for their developing bodies, using dangerous equipment meant for adults and are exposed to toxic pesticides. The issue of child labor involved in chocolate production is included as well. Types of work performed by street children, children in factories and mining are also examined, as well as children who choose to participate in the sex trade. Suggestions for the reduction of child labor are analyzed.
Kamal Fahmi
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774160639
- eISBN:
- 9781617971020
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774160639.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter describes the beginning, exploratory phase of the process in which street ethnography constituted the bulk of street work aiming at elucidating some of the realities of street children ...
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This chapter describes the beginning, exploratory phase of the process in which street ethnography constituted the bulk of street work aiming at elucidating some of the realities of street children and street life.Less
This chapter describes the beginning, exploratory phase of the process in which street ethnography constituted the bulk of street work aiming at elucidating some of the realities of street children and street life.
Kamal Fahmi
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774160639
- eISBN:
- 9781617971020
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774160639.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter looks at the realities of street children and street life, and presents the conceptual framework that was developed in conjunction with them.
This chapter looks at the realities of street children and street life, and presents the conceptual framework that was developed in conjunction with them.
Kristin M. Ferguson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195333619
- eISBN:
- 9780199918195
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333619.003.0023
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
This chapter begins with a global overview of children in and of the street. It then describes frameworks to guide policymakers and social work professionals in working with street children. It ...
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This chapter begins with a global overview of children in and of the street. It then describes frameworks to guide policymakers and social work professionals in working with street children. It argues for the need to develop policy and practice responses that are holistic, collaborative, and asset based. Evaluation research of interventions suggests that organizations offering integrated services in one location are most successful in addressing street children's various needs. Programs that can provide multiple services (e.g., shelter, food, education, employment, counseling, and health care) will ultimately have greater success helping children exit the streets and preparing them for adulthood compared with programs offering one-dimensional services.Less
This chapter begins with a global overview of children in and of the street. It then describes frameworks to guide policymakers and social work professionals in working with street children. It argues for the need to develop policy and practice responses that are holistic, collaborative, and asset based. Evaluation research of interventions suggests that organizations offering integrated services in one location are most successful in addressing street children's various needs. Programs that can provide multiple services (e.g., shelter, food, education, employment, counseling, and health care) will ultimately have greater success helping children exit the streets and preparing them for adulthood compared with programs offering one-dimensional services.
Kamal Fahmi
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774160639
- eISBN:
- 9781617971020
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774160639.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter looks at the conceptual framework that was used to inform the progression of the PAR process.
This chapter looks at the conceptual framework that was used to inform the progression of the PAR process.
Eileen Stillwaggon
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195169270
- eISBN:
- 9780199783427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195169271.003.0005
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
This chapter applies the lessons of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa to Latin America and the Caribbean. Economic and biological factors are important determinants of HIV transmission. Poverty, ...
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This chapter applies the lessons of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa to Latin America and the Caribbean. Economic and biological factors are important determinants of HIV transmission. Poverty, malnutrition, and parasites are endemic in much of the region, which also has additional risk factors for HIV transmission, including injecting drug use and millions of street children. Statistical analysis shows high correlation between HIV prevalence and GDP per capita, international migration, urbanization, and calorie supply. The results reflect the dualism of the Latin American and Caribbean economies and their dual HIV epidemics, and suggest the reasons why HIV is spreading fastest in lower-income groups.Less
This chapter applies the lessons of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa to Latin America and the Caribbean. Economic and biological factors are important determinants of HIV transmission. Poverty, malnutrition, and parasites are endemic in much of the region, which also has additional risk factors for HIV transmission, including injecting drug use and millions of street children. Statistical analysis shows high correlation between HIV prevalence and GDP per capita, international migration, urbanization, and calorie supply. The results reflect the dualism of the Latin American and Caribbean economies and their dual HIV epidemics, and suggest the reasons why HIV is spreading fastest in lower-income groups.
Clary Milnitsky
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195178425
- eISBN:
- 9780199958528
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178425.003.0012
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Child Psychology / School Psychology
This chapter provides an account of the major factors that lead a large percentage of Brazilian youth to take up life on the streets, a place where they become highly vulnerable to violence and ...
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This chapter provides an account of the major factors that lead a large percentage of Brazilian youth to take up life on the streets, a place where they become highly vulnerable to violence and associated problems. It also describes some of the lessons learned from studies conducted as part of an ongoing action-research program designed to improve the conditions of street children.Less
This chapter provides an account of the major factors that lead a large percentage of Brazilian youth to take up life on the streets, a place where they become highly vulnerable to violence and associated problems. It also describes some of the lessons learned from studies conducted as part of an ongoing action-research program designed to improve the conditions of street children.
Kamal Fahmi
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774160639
- eISBN:
- 9781617971020
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774160639.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter provides available knowledge regarding a community organizing practice called “street work” that is little known and poorly understood with a meager and often sporadic and sketchy ...
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This chapter provides available knowledge regarding a community organizing practice called “street work” that is little known and poorly understood with a meager and often sporadic and sketchy literature. It gives an overview of the historical development of street work and examines the major parameters of street work practice before presenting the underpinnings of its present situation.Less
This chapter provides available knowledge regarding a community organizing practice called “street work” that is little known and poorly understood with a meager and often sporadic and sketchy literature. It gives an overview of the historical development of street work and examines the major parameters of street work practice before presenting the underpinnings of its present situation.
Mathew Thomson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199677481
- eISBN:
- 9780191757006
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199677481.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Social History
This chapter suggests that photography provides us with a powerful reminder of the presence of children in the streets and spaces of our cities in the middle of the twentieth century. However, it ...
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This chapter suggests that photography provides us with a powerful reminder of the presence of children in the streets and spaces of our cities in the middle of the twentieth century. However, it also recognizes that these images are complicated by nostalgia, and that this is one of the reasons why this had become a central image for modern British history. Considering a range of images from the interwar period to the 1970s, including professional but also amateur photography, it also argues that this work reveals an emerging interest in the perspective of the child. By the 1970s, the child of such photography was portrayed no longer as a mere victim of the environment and social deprivation but was recognized as a purposive agent in subverting and giving meaning to surroundings.Less
This chapter suggests that photography provides us with a powerful reminder of the presence of children in the streets and spaces of our cities in the middle of the twentieth century. However, it also recognizes that these images are complicated by nostalgia, and that this is one of the reasons why this had become a central image for modern British history. Considering a range of images from the interwar period to the 1970s, including professional but also amateur photography, it also argues that this work reveals an emerging interest in the perspective of the child. By the 1970s, the child of such photography was portrayed no longer as a mere victim of the environment and social deprivation but was recognized as a purposive agent in subverting and giving meaning to surroundings.
Antonella Delle Fave and Fausto Massimini
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198567523
- eISBN:
- 9780191693670
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567523.003.0015
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter deals with the implications of studies on subjective well-being in the fields of psychology, health, and social sciences. The knowledge derived from such studies enabled the creation of ...
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This chapter deals with the implications of studies on subjective well-being in the fields of psychology, health, and social sciences. The knowledge derived from such studies enabled the creation of more relevant and effective interventions and social policies that prevent rather than just treat problems. The chapter opens with a discussion on the methodologies used and the subjects selected for study. The research deals primarily with disabled people and street children. The factors relevant to psychological studies on subjective well-being include subjective experience and social context. Notions of psychological selection and optimal experience are discussed in relation to well-being and social welfare. The subsequent sections discuss optimal experience in relation to the subjective experience of disablement and the stereotypes concerning street children. The final sections explore options for more effective intervention programs and social policies for these groups of people.Less
This chapter deals with the implications of studies on subjective well-being in the fields of psychology, health, and social sciences. The knowledge derived from such studies enabled the creation of more relevant and effective interventions and social policies that prevent rather than just treat problems. The chapter opens with a discussion on the methodologies used and the subjects selected for study. The research deals primarily with disabled people and street children. The factors relevant to psychological studies on subjective well-being include subjective experience and social context. Notions of psychological selection and optimal experience are discussed in relation to well-being and social welfare. The subsequent sections discuss optimal experience in relation to the subjective experience of disablement and the stereotypes concerning street children. The final sections explore options for more effective intervention programs and social policies for these groups of people.
Kamal Fahmi
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774160639
- eISBN:
- 9781617971020
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774160639.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter presents the impact of this process at the individual, collective, and policy levels, and ends with a discussion of some methodological considerations and unresolved issues.
This chapter presents the impact of this process at the individual, collective, and policy levels, and ends with a discussion of some methodological considerations and unresolved issues.
Silvia H. Koller, Juliana Prates Santana, and Marcela Raffaelli
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- March 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190847128
- eISBN:
- 9780190847159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190847128.003.0013
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter aims to present a selective review that can be used to identify some contradictions about street life; once recognized, this knowledge may be used to inform interventions and social ...
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This chapter aims to present a selective review that can be used to identify some contradictions about street life; once recognized, this knowledge may be used to inform interventions and social policy initiatives. We begin by defining street children and adolescents; examining evidence of vulnerability and resilience in research on the daily lives of street-involved youth; discussing methodological and ethical challenges to advancing understanding of this population; and examining how research with street-involved youth can be used to advance local and global practice and policy. Our aim is to present literature from around the globe, but our discussion is informed by—and draws on—our long-standing program of research and practice in Brazil.Less
This chapter aims to present a selective review that can be used to identify some contradictions about street life; once recognized, this knowledge may be used to inform interventions and social policy initiatives. We begin by defining street children and adolescents; examining evidence of vulnerability and resilience in research on the daily lives of street-involved youth; discussing methodological and ethical challenges to advancing understanding of this population; and examining how research with street-involved youth can be used to advance local and global practice and policy. Our aim is to present literature from around the globe, but our discussion is informed by—and draws on—our long-standing program of research and practice in Brazil.
Ellen Ross
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520249059
- eISBN:
- 9780520940055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520249059.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley), a successful printmaker and portrait and genre painter. She specialized in depicting children, especially poor and ragged children. Her enormous ...
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This chapter discusses Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley), a successful printmaker and portrait and genre painter. She specialized in depicting children, especially poor and ragged children. Her enormous privilege made her sympathetic toward the street children she drew. The focus of this chapter is on her portrayals of the Seven Dials which were home to ragamuffin and street children.Less
This chapter discusses Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley), a successful printmaker and portrait and genre painter. She specialized in depicting children, especially poor and ragged children. Her enormous privilege made her sympathetic toward the street children she drew. The focus of this chapter is on her portrayals of the Seven Dials which were home to ragamuffin and street children.
Tony Roshan Samara
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816670000
- eISBN:
- 9781452947044
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816670000.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter analyzes neoliberal governance in the urban core, where street children have emerged as central subjects. It explains categories and vocabularies of neoliberal governance on how the ...
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This chapter analyzes neoliberal governance in the urban core, where street children have emerged as central subjects. It explains categories and vocabularies of neoliberal governance on how the black threat is rearticulated into a democratic era. The examination of street children in Cape Town raises questions about the extent to which democracy has any real meaning for the marginalized young black people residing in a world class city. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the racially coded moral panic in Cape Town between 2000 and 2003 that mobilized a “public” consensus around a project of downtown revitalization and economic recovery based on eradicating the threat posed by “out of control” street children.Less
This chapter analyzes neoliberal governance in the urban core, where street children have emerged as central subjects. It explains categories and vocabularies of neoliberal governance on how the black threat is rearticulated into a democratic era. The examination of street children in Cape Town raises questions about the extent to which democracy has any real meaning for the marginalized young black people residing in a world class city. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the racially coded moral panic in Cape Town between 2000 and 2003 that mobilized a “public” consensus around a project of downtown revitalization and economic recovery based on eradicating the threat posed by “out of control” street children.
Ashleigh Barnes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199452941
- eISBN:
- 9780199085521
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199452941.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter explores particular children that are marginalized, ignored, and/or stigmatized by the Convention of the Rights of the Child’s (CRC’s) designation of a particular childhood as normative. ...
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This chapter explores particular children that are marginalized, ignored, and/or stigmatized by the Convention of the Rights of the Child’s (CRC’s) designation of a particular childhood as normative. It utilizes the technique of genealogy, investigating local, discontinuous, disqualified, illegitimate childhoods against the CRC’s claim of a universal childhood. This chapter first examines literature that critiques the CRC as only applicable to children in the west. It then argues that the critique of the CRC as inapplicable to children in the global south is equally relevant to children in the west. Several childhoods in the west and in the global south contradict the CRC’s vision of childhood as a period of irresponsibility/immaturity and the CRC’s vision of the family as responsible, happy, and safe. These contradictory childhoods will be examined. Not only does this genealogy reveal international law’s difficulty with imaging difference, but also the politics in choosing one childhood as deserving/unproblematic and all others as undeserving/problematic.Less
This chapter explores particular children that are marginalized, ignored, and/or stigmatized by the Convention of the Rights of the Child’s (CRC’s) designation of a particular childhood as normative. It utilizes the technique of genealogy, investigating local, discontinuous, disqualified, illegitimate childhoods against the CRC’s claim of a universal childhood. This chapter first examines literature that critiques the CRC as only applicable to children in the west. It then argues that the critique of the CRC as inapplicable to children in the global south is equally relevant to children in the west. Several childhoods in the west and in the global south contradict the CRC’s vision of childhood as a period of irresponsibility/immaturity and the CRC’s vision of the family as responsible, happy, and safe. These contradictory childhoods will be examined. Not only does this genealogy reveal international law’s difficulty with imaging difference, but also the politics in choosing one childhood as deserving/unproblematic and all others as undeserving/problematic.
Jonah Steinberg
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300222807
- eISBN:
- 9780300241112
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300222807.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter begins with the author's account of the life of child runaway Muhammad Nabil. It then sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine not only what makes a child leave home, but what ...
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This chapter begins with the author's account of the life of child runaway Muhammad Nabil. It then sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine not only what makes a child leave home, but what makes children in certain situations likely to leave home; and further, what are those situations and configurations that tend to produce this likely departure, and why and how widely are they shared. It seeks to make sense of whether it is culture, tradition, or rite, on the one hand, that generates child departure or, alternatively, the political-economic forces embedded in history, debt, and rule—or both. If running away is to be taken as an existing cultural form that children may mobilize or manifest, a blueprint that they follow, then a secondary question becomes how is information—instructions, methods, practices, itineraries—transmitted peer to peer or through public texts and images.Less
This chapter begins with the author's account of the life of child runaway Muhammad Nabil. It then sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine not only what makes a child leave home, but what makes children in certain situations likely to leave home; and further, what are those situations and configurations that tend to produce this likely departure, and why and how widely are they shared. It seeks to make sense of whether it is culture, tradition, or rite, on the one hand, that generates child departure or, alternatively, the political-economic forces embedded in history, debt, and rule—or both. If running away is to be taken as an existing cultural form that children may mobilize or manifest, a blueprint that they follow, then a secondary question becomes how is information—instructions, methods, practices, itineraries—transmitted peer to peer or through public texts and images.
Igor Krstić
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474406864
- eISBN:
- 9781474421928
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474406864.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter outlines how documentary and realist styles coalesced as a form of documentario narrativo in the Italian neorealist movement – the major new paradigm of slum representation which, ...
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This chapter outlines how documentary and realist styles coalesced as a form of documentario narrativo in the Italian neorealist movement – the major new paradigm of slum representation which, according to the author, distinguishes the postwar period. As a hybrid between fiction and non-fiction, neorealism has especially appealed to filmmakers who aimed at telling stories about ordinary, often poverty-stricken people, despite insufficient budgets. The chapter argues that the neorealist mode of production travelled across national and even continental borders in the postwar era, reaching developing film countries and their urban centres in India, Brazil or Mexico, thus becoming one of the very first truly global film or ‘world cinema’ styles. The chapter provides a close reading of Los Olvidados (Buñuel 1950), a fictional story of a boy’s struggle for motherly love in a Mexico City slum. It asks in what way it effectively represents a variety of postwar films that have been, to a larger or lesser extent, influenced by Italian neorealism. The chapter concludes with a discussion of films that have, just like Los Olvidados, employed the narrative perspective of abandoned or homeless street children – a narrative device that is still often employed today (e.g. in Slumdog Millionaire).Less
This chapter outlines how documentary and realist styles coalesced as a form of documentario narrativo in the Italian neorealist movement – the major new paradigm of slum representation which, according to the author, distinguishes the postwar period. As a hybrid between fiction and non-fiction, neorealism has especially appealed to filmmakers who aimed at telling stories about ordinary, often poverty-stricken people, despite insufficient budgets. The chapter argues that the neorealist mode of production travelled across national and even continental borders in the postwar era, reaching developing film countries and their urban centres in India, Brazil or Mexico, thus becoming one of the very first truly global film or ‘world cinema’ styles. The chapter provides a close reading of Los Olvidados (Buñuel 1950), a fictional story of a boy’s struggle for motherly love in a Mexico City slum. It asks in what way it effectively represents a variety of postwar films that have been, to a larger or lesser extent, influenced by Italian neorealism. The chapter concludes with a discussion of films that have, just like Los Olvidados, employed the narrative perspective of abandoned or homeless street children – a narrative device that is still often employed today (e.g. in Slumdog Millionaire).
Jonah Steinberg
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300222807
- eISBN:
- 9780300241112
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300222807.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter considers the social life of child death on Delhi's streets. In particular, it attempts to make sense of the public circulation, iteration, and visibility of knowledge, narratives, and ...
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This chapter considers the social life of child death on Delhi's streets. In particular, it attempts to make sense of the public circulation, iteration, and visibility of knowledge, narratives, and images of street children's deaths, or the invisibility, silence, and unknowability such passings may invoke. What is the valency of the death of a noncitizen barely visible to and barely recognized by the authors of space and the guarantors of rights, and yet highly visible to their violators? What is death, socially speaking, without traceable kin, name, place of origin, or legal existence? What does such a person's death reveal about the value they are assigned by society. It proposes that the death of solo children in Delhi, and their interaction with death, reveals much about the calculus of self and citizenship in postcolonial India, and that the reality of life in postcolonial India, in turn, is inscribed into street children's encounters with dying.Less
This chapter considers the social life of child death on Delhi's streets. In particular, it attempts to make sense of the public circulation, iteration, and visibility of knowledge, narratives, and images of street children's deaths, or the invisibility, silence, and unknowability such passings may invoke. What is the valency of the death of a noncitizen barely visible to and barely recognized by the authors of space and the guarantors of rights, and yet highly visible to their violators? What is death, socially speaking, without traceable kin, name, place of origin, or legal existence? What does such a person's death reveal about the value they are assigned by society. It proposes that the death of solo children in Delhi, and their interaction with death, reveals much about the calculus of self and citizenship in postcolonial India, and that the reality of life in postcolonial India, in turn, is inscribed into street children's encounters with dying.
David Sims
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789774164040
- eISBN:
- 9781617970405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774164040.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter describes Cairo, Egypt and evaluates the most common type of imaging to which Cairo is subject. It aims to inform the reader that there are numerous ways Cairo can be taken and observed, ...
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This chapter describes Cairo, Egypt and evaluates the most common type of imaging to which Cairo is subject. It aims to inform the reader that there are numerous ways Cairo can be taken and observed, and to provide a forewarning of some of the more common pitfalls and distortions found in the literature. These distortions include the number of homeless people and street children in this city. This chapter suggests that the single strongest pull in the imaging of Cairo is probably the city's historical dimension.Less
This chapter describes Cairo, Egypt and evaluates the most common type of imaging to which Cairo is subject. It aims to inform the reader that there are numerous ways Cairo can be taken and observed, and to provide a forewarning of some of the more common pitfalls and distortions found in the literature. These distortions include the number of homeless people and street children in this city. This chapter suggests that the single strongest pull in the imaging of Cairo is probably the city's historical dimension.
