Reading Lists

Gender, Sexuality, and Beyond - A Reading List for Children

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11 Children's Picture Books about Emotions and Fears
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Ten Books on Sexual Violence for Youth and Adults

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Reading list for children in the context of “History & Culture”.

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History of Childhood and Youth in India

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Children's Rights: Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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Colonial and Postcolonial Girlhoods

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Histories of Childhood in the Global South

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Global Childhoods

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Adoption and Adoptive Family Lives

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Youth, Class, Politics, Consumption

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Education and the Reproduction of Inequality

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Latest publications

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Jana Tschurenev and Sumeet Mhaskar, "Wake up for education”: colonialism, social transformation, and the beginnings of the anti-caste movement in India", Paedagogica Historica, May 2021

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Divya Kannan

Children's Work for Children": Caste, Childhood, and Missionary Philanthropy in Colonial India,  The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth,  Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2021, pp. 234-253

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Catriona Ellis

'If You Cannot Feed the Body of a Child You Cannot Feed the Brain’: Education and Nutrition in Late Colonial Madras, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 44, Issue 1., February 2021,135-151

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Sujatha Subramanian

Bahujan girls’ anti-caste activism on TikTok, Feminist Media Studies

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Utsa Mukherjee

Navigating children’s screen-time at home: narratives of childing and parenting within the familial generational structure, Children's Geographies

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Sarah Emily Duff

‘Dear Mrs Brown’: social purity, sex education and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in early twentieth-century South Africa, Social History, Volume 45, 2020 - Issue 4, 476-499

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Leya Matthew and Ritty Lukose

Pedagogies of Aspiration: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Liberalising India, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 43, 2020 - Issue, 4, 691-704

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Karisma Desai

Life Skills as Affective Labour: Skilling Girls with Gendered Enterprise, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 43, 2020 - Issue, 4, pp.705-722

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Savitha Suresh Babu

Education for Confidence: Political Education for Recasting Bahujan Student Selves, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 43, 2020 - Issue, 4, pp.741-757

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Jean Thomas Martelli and Kristina Garalytė (co-edited), "Student Politics in South Asia", SAMAJ, No. 22, 2019.

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Yusuf Sayed, Vidya Subramanian, Manish Jain

Framing Teachers in National Education Policy and in the Popular Media: Discourses on Teachers and their Work in South Asia, Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia, Global Education Systems, edited by Padma M. Sarangapani & Rekha Pappu (Springer), 2020

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Leya Mathew and Ritty Lukose

Pedagogies of Aspiration: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Liberalising India, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, July 2020

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Caroline Dyer and Vijitha Rajan

Educating South Asia's Internally Migrating Children, Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia, Global Education Systems, edited by Padma M. Sarangapani & Rekha Pappu (Springer), 2020

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Smruthi Bala Kannan and Rashmi Kumari

Collaborations Across Global North-South: Considering Opportunities and Challenges, NEOS Current Issue : Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group 

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Vijitha Rajan 

Ethnography and Migrant Children: Perspectives and Challenges, NEOS Current Issue : Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group 

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Catriona Ellis

Climbing the Coconut Tree: Three South Indians Use Their Personal Memories of Colonial Education to Influence the Decolonisation of Education after Independence in Marcelo Caruso and Daniel Maul eds., Decolonization(s) and Education:New Polities and New Men, (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020)

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Cyril Brandt, Tom De Herdt and Stylianos Moshonas

ROAPE Blog Post: Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same: Congo’s Education Crisis

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-- Brandt, Cyril Owen, and Tom De Herdt. 2020. ‘Reshaping the Reach of the State: The Politics of a Teacher Payment Reform in the DR Congo’. Journal of Modern African Studies 58 (1): 23–43.

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Sneha Krishnan

--Where do Good Girls Have Sex? Space, Risk, and Respectability in Chennai, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, May 2020

-- Digital History and its Potentials: A Microsyllabus,

"The Abusable Past", Radical History Review, May 2020

Open-Access Material 

Divya Ravindranath, Jean-Francois Trani, and Lora Iannotti

Nutrition among children of migrant construction workers in Ahmedabad, India, International Journal for Equity in Health, Volume 8, 2019 - Issue 1, Article 143

Sernan Demiral

Visible, more than Ever: Unequal Childhoods in Istanbul during COVID-19. Odrowaz-Coates (Ed.), What Would Korczak Do? Reflections on Education, Well-being and Children's Rights in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic (pp. 58-69). Warsaw: Publishing House of the Academy of Special Education.

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Yamila V. Rodriguez

A Suitable Amount of (De)Institutionalization: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic. Odrowaz-Coates (Ed.), What Would Korczak Do? Reflections on Education, Well-being and Children's Rights in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic (pp. 142-152). Warsaw: Publishing House of the Academy of Special Education.

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