Generations and globalization : youth, age, and family in the new world economy

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Title:

Author:

Cole, Jennifer, 1966-

ISBN:

9780253348036

9780253218704

Publication Information:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

Physical Description:

226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Tracking globalization

Series Title:

Tracking globalization

Contents:

Chinese children, American education : globalizing child rearing in contemporary China / Continuity and change in San Pedro Tlalcuapan, Mexico : childhood, social reproduction, and transnational migration / Fresh contact in Tamatave, Madagascar : sex, money, and intergenerational transformation / Empowering youth : making youth citizens in Botswana / Aging across worlds : modern seniors in an Indian diaspora / Maintaining local dependencies : elderly women and global rehabilitation agendas in southeastern Botswana / The old world and its new economy : notes on the "third age" in Western Europe today

Subject Term:

Intergenerational relations.

Age groups.

Globalization -- Social aspects.

Relations entre gâenâerations.

Groupes d'ãage.

Mondialisation -- Aspect social.

Internationalisatie.

Leeftijdsgroepen.

Familierelaties.

Added Author:

Cole, Jennifer, 1966-

Durham, Deborah Lynn, 1958-

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006009629.html

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""This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how anthropology matters to our understanding of the contemporary world and its global restructuring."" --Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University

Globalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care, and the daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Mexico, the U.S., Europe, India, and China, Generations and Globalization investigates the impact of globalization in the context of families, age groups, and intergenerational relations. The contributors offer an innovative approach that focuses on the changing dynamics between generations, rather than treating changes in childhood, youth, or old age as discrete categories. They argue that new economies and global flows do not just transform contemporary family life, but are in important ways shaped and constituted by it.

Contributors are Jennifer Cole, Deborah Durham, Jessica Greenberg, Sarah Lamb, Julie Livingston, Roger Magazine, Andrea Muehlebach, Martha Areli Ramirez Sanchez, and T. E. Woronov.