Olga Nieuwenhuys
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 652204 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Olga Nieuwenhuys |
| NOMBRES | Olga |
| APELLIDO | Nieuwenhuys |
| FIRMA | NIEUWENHUYS O |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 285 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Women and Children in social reproduction and the global womb
Past, present and futures of childhood studies
Children’s Rights as Living Rights
In this article we propose the notion of living rights to highlight that children, whilst making use of notions of rights, shape what these rights are, and become, in the social world. Emphasising children’s agency in living with and through their rights facilitates empirical enquiry, and moves the vectors of the debate on what children’s rights are to the interplay between how children understand their rights and the way others translate and mak…
Theorizing childhood(s)
Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development
Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on …
Can the teddy bear speak
Keep asking
Embedding the Global Womb
Unevenly distributed symbolic resources misrecognize children's lifeworlds in favour of a mythical global order. As new policy agenda representations of child labour in the global south hold out the promise of a labour-free global childhood, children's day-to-day work routines are denied. These routines are typically located in hidden landscapes of reproduction (the ‘global womb’). Retracing the historical and territorial itinerary of child labou…
Childhood gifts
Refractions of Children's Rights in Development Practice
Children's Lifeworlds
Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school in Kerala. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical assessment of the daily work routine of children, this book questions how class and kinship, gender and household organization, state ideology and education influence and conceal the lives of children in developing countries. Presenting an extraordinaril…
Mourning Amma
Over the past century the lower ‘impure’ castes in India have brought their funerary rituals in tune with the Brahminical mainstream, a process known as sanskritization. But a sense of oppressed identity persists, in which both cosmopolitanism and particularism are played out. Day-to-day funerals are complex politicized performances in which values in Indian society are condensed, manipulated and polarized. Funerals convey multifarious ways of ne…
Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand
Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand. Heather Montgomery. New York: Berghahn Books.2001. xi. 194 pp., tables, bibliography, index
By the Sweat of Their Brow? 'Street Children', NGOs and Children's Rights in Addis Ababa
In the past two decades NGOs helping 'street children' in Addis Ababa have distinguished themselves by their adherence to highly controversial assumptions about the nature of childhood and the failure of the poor to raise their children in ways that they conceive as 'proper'. The ratification of the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child by the Ethiopian government has inspired them to stop food relief in order to persuade the children in thei…
Global Childhood and the Politics of Contempt
When in 1978 I first came to the coastal village of Poomkara in Kerala, India, to carry out an anthropological inquiry into the work of children as part of a research project on poverty and survival strategies of poor households,1 I witnessed, not surprisingly, a fair degree of indigence and heavy involvement of children in their families' daily hardships. About half of the village children did not get three meals a day, were scantily dressed, an…
Spaces for the children of the urban poor
This paper explains why participatory action research (PAR) could be so important in helping the children of the urban poor, and those who work with them, generate relevant insights into their specific needs and priorities and help them influence decisions that are taken about their lives. The paper begins by discussing the problems facing children in urban areas of the South and why more participatory research approaches which work with children…
Spaces for the children of the urban poor
This paper explains why participatory action research (PAR) could be so important in helping the children of the urban poor, and those who work with them, generate relevant insights into their specific needs and priorities and help them influence decisions that are taken about their lives. The paper begins by discussing the problems facing children in urban areas of the South and why more participatory research approaches which work with children…
The Paradox of Child Labor and Anthropology
In relating the child labor debate to the observed variety of children's work patterns, this review reveals the limits of current notions such as labor, gender, and exploitation in the analysis of this work. Particularly in the developing world, most work undertaken by children has for a long time been explained away as socialization, education, training, and play. Anthropology has helped disclose that age is used with gender as the justification…
The domestic economy and the exploitation of children's work
The domestic economy and the exploitation of children's work: The case of Kerala* OLGA NIEUWENHUYS Institute of Development Research Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1. Introduction For some years now Indian newspapers have regularly exposed the sorrowful stories of crude profiteering to which the migrant girls from the Southern state of Kerala who work thousands of kilometres away from home in the prawn curing factories of Guj…
Children's Lifeworlds
To read and not to eat
This article challenges the view that in the Third World universal schooling would provide, as is widely believed, an antidote against the widespread involvement of poor children in work. Analysing the everyday life of poor children in a coastal village, the author contends that for the children of the rural poor, expanding schooling, because it involves time to be free from work and new expenses for clothing and study material, has generally res…
Emancipation for Survival
Landless labourers often cultivate relations of patronage as part of survival strategies even though such relations severely curtail the scope for their emancipationin the long run. In the past decennia, however, the possibilities to maintain relations of patronage or get into new ones have been dwindling fast (Breman 1974). New forms of dependency, such as political clientelism, have proven to be relevant to only a selected minority. To which st…
The Paradox of Child Labor and Anthropology
In relating the child labor debate to the observed variety of children's work patterns, this review reveals the limits of current notions such as labor, gender, and exploitation in the analysis of this work. Particularly in the developing world, most work undertaken by children has for a long time been explained away as socialization, education, training, and play. Anthropology has helped disclose that age is used with gender as the justification…
By the Sweat of Their Brow? 'Street Children', NGOs and Children's Rights in Addis Ababa
In the past two decades NGOs helping 'street children' in Addis Ababa have distinguished themselves by their adherence to highly controversial assumptions about the nature of childhood and the failure of the poor to raise their children in ways that they conceive as 'proper'. The ratification of the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child by the Ethiopian government has inspired them to stop food relief in order to persuade the children in thei…
Global Childhood and the Politics of Contempt
When in 1978 I first came to the coastal village of Poomkara in Kerala, India, to carry out an anthropological inquiry into the work of children as part of a research project on poverty and survival strategies of poor households,1 I witnessed, not surprisingly, a fair degree of indigence and heavy involvement of children in their families' daily hardships. About half of the village children did not get three meals a day, were scantily dressed, an…
Theorizing childhood(s)
Refractions of Children's Rights in Development Practice
Embedding the Global Womb
Unevenly distributed symbolic resources misrecognize children's lifeworlds in favour of a mythical global order. As new policy agenda representations of child labour in the global south hold out the promise of a labour-free global childhood, children's day-to-day work routines are denied. These routines are typically located in hidden landscapes of reproduction (the ‘global womb’). Retracing the historical and territorial itinerary of child labou…
Keep asking
Children’s Rights as Living Rights
In this article we propose the notion of living rights to highlight that children, whilst making use of notions of rights, shape what these rights are, and become, in the social world. Emphasising children’s agency in living with and through their rights facilitates empirical enquiry, and moves the vectors of the debate on what children’s rights are to the interplay between how children understand their rights and the way others translate and mak…
The domestic economy and the exploitation of children's work
The domestic economy and the exploitation of children's work: The case of Kerala* OLGA NIEUWENHUYS Institute of Development Research Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1. Introduction For some years now Indian newspapers have regularly exposed the sorrowful stories of crude profiteering to which the migrant girls from the Southern state of Kerala who work thousands of kilometres away from home in the prawn curing factories of Guj…
Past, present and futures of childhood studies
Can the teddy bear speak
Mourning Amma
Over the past century the lower ‘impure’ castes in India have brought their funerary rituals in tune with the Brahminical mainstream, a process known as sanskritization. But a sense of oppressed identity persists, in which both cosmopolitanism and particularism are played out. Day-to-day funerals are complex politicized performances in which values in Indian society are condensed, manipulated and polarized. Funerals convey multifarious ways of ne…
Spaces for the children of the urban poor
This paper explains why participatory action research (PAR) could be so important in helping the children of the urban poor, and those who work with them, generate relevant insights into their specific needs and priorities and help them influence decisions that are taken about their lives. The paper begins by discussing the problems facing children in urban areas of the South and why more participatory research approaches which work with children…
To read and not to eat
This article challenges the view that in the Third World universal schooling would provide, as is widely believed, an antidote against the widespread involvement of poor children in work. Analysing the everyday life of poor children in a coastal village, the author contends that for the children of the rural poor, expanding schooling, because it involves time to be free from work and new expenses for clothing and study material, has generally res…
Emancipation for Survival
Landless labourers often cultivate relations of patronage as part of survival strategies even though such relations severely curtail the scope for their emancipationin the long run. In the past decennia, however, the possibilities to maintain relations of patronage or get into new ones have been dwindling fast (Breman 1974). New forms of dependency, such as political clientelism, have proven to be relevant to only a selected minority. To which st…
Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand
Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand. Heather Montgomery. New York: Berghahn Books.2001. xi. 194 pp., tables, bibliography, index
Emancipation for Survival
Landless labourers often cultivate relations of patronage as part of survival strategies even though such relations severely curtail the scope for their emancipationin the long run. In the past decennia, however, the possibilities to maintain relations of patronage or get into new ones have been dwindling fast (Breman 1974). New forms of dependency, such as political clientelism, have proven to be relevant to only a selected minority. To which st…
To read and not to eat
This article challenges the view that in the Third World universal schooling would provide, as is widely believed, an antidote against the widespread involvement of poor children in work. Analysing the everyday life of poor children in a coastal village, the author contends that for the children of the rural poor, expanding schooling, because it involves time to be free from work and new expenses for clothing and study material, has generally res…
The domestic economy and the exploitation of children's work
The domestic economy and the exploitation of children's work: The case of Kerala* OLGA NIEUWENHUYS Institute of Development Research Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1. Introduction For some years now Indian newspapers have regularly exposed the sorrowful stories of crude profiteering to which the migrant girls from the Southern state of Kerala who work thousands of kilometres away from home in the prawn curing factories of Guj…
Children's Lifeworlds
The Paradox of Child Labor and Anthropology
In relating the child labor debate to the observed variety of children's work patterns, this review reveals the limits of current notions such as labor, gender, and exploitation in the analysis of this work. Particularly in the developing world, most work undertaken by children has for a long time been explained away as socialization, education, training, and play. Anthropology has helped disclose that age is used with gender as the justification…
Spaces for the children of the urban poor
This paper explains why participatory action research (PAR) could be so important in helping the children of the urban poor, and those who work with them, generate relevant insights into their specific needs and priorities and help them influence decisions that are taken about their lives. The paper begins by discussing the problems facing children in urban areas of the South and why more participatory research approaches which work with children…
Spaces for the children of the urban poor
This paper explains why participatory action research (PAR) could be so important in helping the children of the urban poor, and those who work with them, generate relevant insights into their specific needs and priorities and help them influence decisions that are taken about their lives. The paper begins by discussing the problems facing children in urban areas of the South and why more participatory research approaches which work with children…
Global Childhood and the Politics of Contempt
When in 1978 I first came to the coastal village of Poomkara in Kerala, India, to carry out an anthropological inquiry into the work of children as part of a research project on poverty and survival strategies of poor households,1 I witnessed, not surprisingly, a fair degree of indigence and heavy involvement of children in their families' daily hardships. About half of the village children did not get three meals a day, were scantily dressed, an…
By the Sweat of Their Brow? 'Street Children', NGOs and Children's Rights in Addis Ababa
In the past two decades NGOs helping 'street children' in Addis Ababa have distinguished themselves by their adherence to highly controversial assumptions about the nature of childhood and the failure of the poor to raise their children in ways that they conceive as 'proper'. The ratification of the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child by the Ethiopian government has inspired them to stop food relief in order to persuade the children in thei…
Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand
Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand. Heather Montgomery. New York: Berghahn Books.2001. xi. 194 pp., tables, bibliography, index
Mourning Amma
Over the past century the lower ‘impure’ castes in India have brought their funerary rituals in tune with the Brahminical mainstream, a process known as sanskritization. But a sense of oppressed identity persists, in which both cosmopolitanism and particularism are played out. Day-to-day funerals are complex politicized performances in which values in Indian society are condensed, manipulated and polarized. Funerals convey multifarious ways of ne…
Children's Lifeworlds
Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school in Kerala. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical assessment of the daily work routine of children, this book questions how class and kinship, gender and household organization, state ideology and education influence and conceal the lives of children in developing countries. Presenting an extraordinaril…
Childhood gifts
Refractions of Children's Rights in Development Practice
Embedding the Global Womb
Unevenly distributed symbolic resources misrecognize children's lifeworlds in favour of a mythical global order. As new policy agenda representations of child labour in the global south hold out the promise of a labour-free global childhood, children's day-to-day work routines are denied. These routines are typically located in hidden landscapes of reproduction (the ‘global womb’). Retracing the historical and territorial itinerary of child labou…
Keep asking
Can the teddy bear speak
Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development
Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on …
Theorizing childhood(s)
Children’s Rights as Living Rights
In this article we propose the notion of living rights to highlight that children, whilst making use of notions of rights, shape what these rights are, and become, in the social world. Emphasising children’s agency in living with and through their rights facilitates empirical enquiry, and moves the vectors of the debate on what children’s rights are to the interplay between how children understand their rights and the way others translate and mak…
Past, present and futures of childhood studies
Women and Children in social reproduction and the global womb
Sociology (17 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Developmental psychology (5 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras)