Author : Rose Butler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811311021
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Book Synopsis Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods by : Rose Butler
Download or read book Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods written by Rose Butler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how rural children negotiate economic insecurity and difference. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural Australia, it shows that children draw on class-based ideas of moral worth, anchored in racialised and gendered understandings, to negotiate financial hardship and insecurity. Through close observations in the classroom, school yard and the home, and interviews with diverse young people, their parents and teachers, Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods takes us deep into children’s everyday struggles and their efforts to manage insecurity and belonging within a polarised economic landscape. This book offers compelling new analysis of children’s experiences at a time of rapid and far-reaching change in rural communities and the world at large. This unique and engaging ethnography of rural Australia makes an important and timely contribution to wider understandings of how children navigate the precarious circumstances of the present.