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Growing Up Global Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives Cindi Katz |
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How globalization is remade and internalized in children’s everyday lives. Growing Up Global examines the processes of development and global change through the perspective of children’s lives in two seemingly disparate places: New York City and a village in northern Sudan. At the book’s core is a longitudinal ethnographic study of children growing up in a Sudanese village that was included in a large state-sponsored agricultural program in the year they were born. It follows a small number of children intermittently from ten years of age to early adulthood, concentrating particularly on their work and play, which together trained the children for an agrarian life centered around the family, a life that was quickly becoming obsolete. Shifting her focus to largely working-class families in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, Katz is able to expose unsuspected connections with the Sudanese experience in the effects on children of a constantly changing, capitalist environment—the decline of manufacturing jobs and the increase in knowledge-based jobs—in which young people with few skills and stunted educations face bleak employment prospects. In teasing out how “development” transforms the grounds on which these young people come of age, Cindi Katz provides a textured analysis of the importance of knowledge in the ability of people, families, and communities to reproduce themselves and their material social practices over time. "This is a book that I highly recommend; it brings to us an issue, a place, and a people that rarely make it into our political imaginations." —International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies “Brilliant and intimate. The book is an eloquent rendition of the expansive spatial abstractions and mimetic revolutionary re-imagination it proposes.” —Social and Cultural Geography “Theoretically and empirically rich. Katz provides new theoretical tools with which to move beyond global/local debates and to construct comparative research projects.” —Women’s Studies Quarterly “An eloquently prosaic, and readable narrative, effortlessly interweaving theoretical reflection with thick description. Katz beautifully exercises the craft of the ethnographer. This text provides a substantial and worthwhile analysis of the workings of globalisation and its local impacts. Everyone should read this.” —Children’s Geographies “In this remarkable and ambitious study, geographer Cindi Katz documents and theorizes connections between global capitalism and children’s lives. The work is anchored in political economy but draws on an impressive breadth of scholarship from many disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, and geography. This book represents a tremendous achievement and contribution—a model for future research.” —Canadian Journal of Sociology Online “Contributes substantially to the science of geography while the creativity of its spatial imagination enlivens the art of geography. With vivid prose and attractively illustrated by the author’s photographs, this book will appeal to many readers within, and beyond, geography.” —Association of American Geographers Newsletter “In Growing Up Global, Katz takes up the question of power and inequality. Katz’s search is for a more distributive, concrete form of social justice.” —Antipode “Growing Up Global should be read widely and closely, to open debate within geography about how one crafts ‘critical ethnographies’ across divergent social conditions, lived understandings, archival possibilities, and methodological limitations.” —Environment and Planning D: Society and Space “Cindi Katz is to be congratulated for having produced a magnificent work in Growing up Global. This is an inspiring book in which the author combines the craft of the ethnographer with incisive theoretical analysis, infused throughout with affectionate warmth for her research participants and collaborators.” —International Development Planning Review Cindi Katz is professor of geography in the Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies Programs at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 312 pages | 32 halftones | 7 x 10 | 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Part I: Fluid Dynamics Part II: Social Reproduction Part III: Displacements |
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