Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth Young Rural Lives [Paperback]

This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely linked, but basically independent, chapters. In this case, the book presents both thematically organised case studies and co-authored commentaries that integrate and advance current understandings and debates about rural childhood and youth.

1. From difference to dialogue: conceptualizing global perspectives on rural childhood and youth  Ruth Panelli, Samantha Punch and Elsbeth Robson  Part 1: Contexts and Identities  2. Doing and belonging: toward a more-than-representational account of young migrant identities in Lesotho and Malawi  Nicola Ansell and Lorraine van Blerk  3. Exploring masculinity, technology and identity in rural Norway  Anne Sofie Laegran  4. Our lives are like a sock inside-out: childrens work and youth identity in neoliberal rural Mexico  Fina Carpena-M?ndez  5. Rural daughters in Australia, New Zealand and the United States: an historical perspective  Kathryn Hunter and Pamela Riney-Kehrberg  6. Reflecting on contexts and identities for young rural lives  Naomi Bushin, Nicola Ansell, Hanne Adriansen, Jaana L?hteenmaa and Ruth Panelli  Part 2: Agency and Everyday Action  7. An example of thin agency: child domestic workers in Tanzania  Natascha Klocker  8. On both sides of the tracks: British rural teenagers views on their ruralities  Hugh Matthews and Faith Tucker  9. The ls-