The 'Poor Child'

Abstract

Unsettling the global child: rethinking child subjectivity in education and international development Lucy Hopkins and Arathi Sriprakash. Section 1: Cultural representations of childhood and poverty 'It shouldn't happen here': Cultural and relational dynamics structured around the 'poor child' Erica Burman. 'Black kid burden': cultural representations of Indigenous childhood and poverty in Australia Kristina Gottschall Section 2: Contextualising the 'poor child': children's voices as modes of resistance Child labour, schooling and the reconstruction of childhood: a case study from Kenya Angela Githitho Muriithi. Victims of what? Misunderstandings of anti-trafficking child protection policies in Benin Simona Morganti. The construction of resilience: voices of poor children in Mexico Luz Maria Stella Moreno Medrano. Section 3: Questioning the project of schooling and the politics of development Policy constructions of childhoods: impacts of multi-level education and development policy processes in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Alexandra McCormick. Modernity and multiple childhoods: interrogating the education of the rural poor in global India Arathi Sriprakash. Picturing education, poverty and childhood from the perspectives of yak herder children in Bhutan Lucy Hopkins. Revisioning 'development': towards a relational understanding of the 'poor child' Arathi Sriprakash and Lucy Hopkins.