1st Edition
Children and NGOs in India Development as Storytelling and Performance
By Annie McCarthy
Copyright 2021
196 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is an ethnographic exploration of slum children’s participation in NGO programs that centres children’s narratives as key to understanding the lived experience of development in India where 50% of the population is under the age of 25.
Weaving theoretical and methodological interventions from anthropology, childhood studies and development studies with children’s own narratives... Read more
Introduction Part I: Developing the Child 1. Development: A Story of Three Million NGOs, Innumerable Slum Dwellers and Some Wonderfully ‘Animated’ Children 2. Childhood: A Story of Interventions, Birthdays, Play and Pragmatism Part II: Problems and Solutions 3. Problem: Violence 4. Photo-essay: A Class in Self Defence 5. Solutions: Girl Power and Real Men Part III: Performance 6. Handwashing as Potential: "But my Mother Washes her Hands!" 7. Fun and Dreams Conclusion
Biography
Annie McCarthy is Assistant Professor in Global Studies at the University of Canberra, Australia.
