P Froerer
Biographic Data
| ID | 15275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Froerer |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Froerer |
| SIGNATURE | FROERER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1605-3564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility: Uncertain Futures for Rural Youth in India
Sacrifice, suffering and hope: Education, aspiration and young people’s affective orientations to the future
In this editorial introduction to the Special Theme, Sacrifice, Suffering and Hope: Education, Aspiration and Young People’s Affective Orientations to the Future, we discuss the key theoretical themes (aspiration, sacrifice and affect) that underpin the papers in this collection. With geographical focus on India, Indonesia, Kenya and Bangladesh, our aim is to contribute a more ethnographically-grounded understanding of the affective orientations …
Young People's Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future
The future for young people worldwide is characterised by multiple uncertainties, particularly perhaps in countries of the Global South. There is a growing and pervasive expectation that these uncertainties need to be responded to, both by institutions and individuals, so that young people are prepared for an unpredictable and changing world. 'Raising aspirations' is expected to play an instrumental role in preparing young people to confront a co…
Education, Aspiration and aage badhna: The Role of Schooling in Facilitating ‘Forward Movement’ in Rural Chhattisgarh, India
This article explores the role of education in marginalised young people’s aspirations for aage badhna (forward movement). Drawing on ethnographic research in rural Chhattisgarh, central India, we show how young people’s orientations toward a desired future remain anchored in education, even when possibilities for education-related forward movement become unattainable. The way in which aspirations are translated into locally viable outcomes, we s…
Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations
In this editorial introduction to the Special Issue Youth, Aspirations and the Life Course: Development and the social production of aspirations in young people's lives, we put the work presented in this collection in conversation with the wider literature on development, youth and aspirations. Aspiration we define as an orientation towards a desired future. We elaborate on our conceptualisation of aspirations as socially produced and reflect on …
Inhabiting ‘childhood’: Children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India
Inhabiting ‘childhood’: children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India." Children's Geographies, 15(4), pp. 501–502
Adivasi young people and the risk of education in rural Chhattisgarh
In rural Chhattisgarh, central India, some people regard school education as intrinsically beneficial. Many others, however, consider it to be an expensive and risky means to an end that is not attainable by people like themselves: marginalized adivasis who lack the requisite forms of capital to translate their educational investment into a viable economic return. What gives rise to these contrasting perspectives? And what does this tell us about…
Children's Films: A Response from Anthropology
This is a wonderful collection of films that has relevance to anthropology, and especially to an anthropology that both privileges the perspectives of children and recognises the important insights...
Learning, Livelihoods, and Social Mobility: Valuing Girls' Education in Central India
This article is concerned with the relationship between education, aspiration, and social mobility in Chhattisgarh, central India. I am interested in how the ideology of education as an intrinsic "social good" squares with the everyday experiences of marginalized adivasi (tribal) girls. My aim is to understand why education is differently valued by children and adults, and the ways in which girls' education-related aspirations are altered in rela…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning, Livelihoods, and Social Mobility
This special issue explores a variety of learning and educational strategies, their local meanings and relevance, and how these articulate with livelihood options within changing politico-economic conditions. By considering diverse ethnographic contexts and a multitude of educational and work environments, the papers bring into dialogue various anthropological themes on learning, education and apprenticeship, forms of capital, and the effects of …
Education, Inequality and Social Mobility in Central India
Children's moral reasoning about illness in Chhattisgarh, central India
This article is about children's moral reasoning about illness and supernatural retribution in a rural tribal community in Chhattisgarh, central India. Detailed ethnographic analysis is devoted to the norms and experiences within which conceptions about illness causality and morality are formed. The author is principally interested in the discrepancy between children's and adults' knowledge about moral accountability; in how children make sense o…
Educational failure and working class white children in Britain - By Evans, Gillian
Ethnographies of Childhood and Childrearing
Childrearing and socialization continue to be important for a wider anthropological understanding of the production, reproduction, and transmission of cultural beliefs and practices. The four monographs reviewed here demonstrate a resurgence in anthropological analysis of children and childhood. This article examines the varying analytical avenues through which this research has recently been directed, including class and social inequality, ethni…
Disciplining the Saffron Way: Moral Education and the Hindu Rashtra
This paper explores the relationship between Hindu nationalist ideology and the disciplinary practices of the Saraswati Shishu Mandir Primary School. It is an attempt to understand how the rhetoric that revolves around the creation of a 'Hindu rashtra' (Hindu nation) is translated and implemented in pedagogical terms and interpreted and articulated by children. Specific focus is on the way that primary school children experience and talk about th…
Wrongdoing and Retribution: Children's Conceptions of Illness Causality in a Central Indian Village
This paper is a study of children's conceptions of illness causality. Based on ethnographic research in a central Indian tribal community, it is a response to the lack of systematic attention within mainstream anthropology on children, and within medical anthropology on children's understanding of illness causation. A combination of participant observation and structured interviews was used to examine local distinctions between ‘natural’ and ‘sup…
Emphasizing 'Others: The emergence of Hindu nationalism in a central Indian tribal community
This article is an ethnographic account of the rise of Hindu nationalism in a central Indian 'tribal' (adivasi) community. It is a response to the lack of ethnographic attention within wider nationalist discourse to the kinds of social conditions and processes that have contributed to the manifestation of nationalism at the grass-roots level. It is argued that the successful spread of Hindu nationalism in specifically tribal areas is due to the i…
Challenging traditional authority: The role of the state, the divine and the RSS
This article is an examination of the relationship between traditional authority and the state, using a leadership dispute in a rural adivasi village as the ethnographic backdrop. The primary objective of the article is to examine how traditional authority continues to be reproduced in the context of local notions of political and cosmological legitimacy. It shows how the state can simultaneously buttress and transform traditional authority. By l…
Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations
In this editorial introduction to the Special Issue Youth, Aspirations and the Life Course: Development and the social production of aspirations in young people's lives, we put the work presented in this collection in conversation with the wider literature on development, youth and aspirations. Aspiration we define as an orientation towards a desired future. We elaborate on our conceptualisation of aspirations as socially produced and reflect on …
Education, Inequality and Social Mobility in Central India
Emphasizing 'Others: The emergence of Hindu nationalism in a central Indian tribal community
This article is an ethnographic account of the rise of Hindu nationalism in a central Indian 'tribal' (adivasi) community. It is a response to the lack of ethnographic attention within wider nationalist discourse to the kinds of social conditions and processes that have contributed to the manifestation of nationalism at the grass-roots level. It is argued that the successful spread of Hindu nationalism in specifically tribal areas is due to the i…
Disciplining the Saffron Way: Moral Education and the Hindu Rashtra
This paper explores the relationship between Hindu nationalist ideology and the disciplinary practices of the Saraswati Shishu Mandir Primary School. It is an attempt to understand how the rhetoric that revolves around the creation of a 'Hindu rashtra' (Hindu nation) is translated and implemented in pedagogical terms and interpreted and articulated by children. Specific focus is on the way that primary school children experience and talk about th…
Learning, Livelihoods, and Social Mobility: Valuing Girls' Education in Central India
This article is concerned with the relationship between education, aspiration, and social mobility in Chhattisgarh, central India. I am interested in how the ideology of education as an intrinsic "social good" squares with the everyday experiences of marginalized adivasi (tribal) girls. My aim is to understand why education is differently valued by children and adults, and the ways in which girls' education-related aspirations are altered in rela…
Education, Aspiration and aage badhna: The Role of Schooling in Facilitating ‘Forward Movement’ in Rural Chhattisgarh, India
This article explores the role of education in marginalised young people’s aspirations for aage badhna (forward movement). Drawing on ethnographic research in rural Chhattisgarh, central India, we show how young people’s orientations toward a desired future remain anchored in education, even when possibilities for education-related forward movement become unattainable. The way in which aspirations are translated into locally viable outcomes, we s…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning, Livelihoods, and Social Mobility
This special issue explores a variety of learning and educational strategies, their local meanings and relevance, and how these articulate with livelihood options within changing politico-economic conditions. By considering diverse ethnographic contexts and a multitude of educational and work environments, the papers bring into dialogue various anthropological themes on learning, education and apprenticeship, forms of capital, and the effects of …
Sacrifice, suffering and hope: Education, aspiration and young people’s affective orientations to the future
In this editorial introduction to the Special Theme, Sacrifice, Suffering and Hope: Education, Aspiration and Young People’s Affective Orientations to the Future, we discuss the key theoretical themes (aspiration, sacrifice and affect) that underpin the papers in this collection. With geographical focus on India, Indonesia, Kenya and Bangladesh, our aim is to contribute a more ethnographically-grounded understanding of the affective orientations …
Adivasi young people and the risk of education in rural Chhattisgarh
In rural Chhattisgarh, central India, some people regard school education as intrinsically beneficial. Many others, however, consider it to be an expensive and risky means to an end that is not attainable by people like themselves: marginalized adivasis who lack the requisite forms of capital to translate their educational investment into a viable economic return. What gives rise to these contrasting perspectives? And what does this tell us about…
Wrongdoing and Retribution: Children's Conceptions of Illness Causality in a Central Indian Village
This paper is a study of children's conceptions of illness causality. Based on ethnographic research in a central Indian tribal community, it is a response to the lack of systematic attention within mainstream anthropology on children, and within medical anthropology on children's understanding of illness causation. A combination of participant observation and structured interviews was used to examine local distinctions between ‘natural’ and ‘sup…
Young People's Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future
The future for young people worldwide is characterised by multiple uncertainties, particularly perhaps in countries of the Global South. There is a growing and pervasive expectation that these uncertainties need to be responded to, both by institutions and individuals, so that young people are prepared for an unpredictable and changing world. 'Raising aspirations' is expected to play an instrumental role in preparing young people to confront a co…
Children's moral reasoning about illness in Chhattisgarh, central India
This article is about children's moral reasoning about illness and supernatural retribution in a rural tribal community in Chhattisgarh, central India. Detailed ethnographic analysis is devoted to the norms and experiences within which conceptions about illness causality and morality are formed. The author is principally interested in the discrepancy between children's and adults' knowledge about moral accountability; in how children make sense o…
Challenging traditional authority: The role of the state, the divine and the RSS
This article is an examination of the relationship between traditional authority and the state, using a leadership dispute in a rural adivasi village as the ethnographic backdrop. The primary objective of the article is to examine how traditional authority continues to be reproduced in the context of local notions of political and cosmological legitimacy. It shows how the state can simultaneously buttress and transform traditional authority. By l…
Challenging traditional authority: The role of the state, the divine and the RSS
This article is an examination of the relationship between traditional authority and the state, using a leadership dispute in a rural adivasi village as the ethnographic backdrop. The primary objective of the article is to examine how traditional authority continues to be reproduced in the context of local notions of political and cosmological legitimacy. It shows how the state can simultaneously buttress and transform traditional authority. By l…
Emphasizing 'Others: The emergence of Hindu nationalism in a central Indian tribal community
This article is an ethnographic account of the rise of Hindu nationalism in a central Indian 'tribal' (adivasi) community. It is a response to the lack of ethnographic attention within wider nationalist discourse to the kinds of social conditions and processes that have contributed to the manifestation of nationalism at the grass-roots level. It is argued that the successful spread of Hindu nationalism in specifically tribal areas is due to the i…
Disciplining the Saffron Way: Moral Education and the Hindu Rashtra
This paper explores the relationship between Hindu nationalist ideology and the disciplinary practices of the Saraswati Shishu Mandir Primary School. It is an attempt to understand how the rhetoric that revolves around the creation of a 'Hindu rashtra' (Hindu nation) is translated and implemented in pedagogical terms and interpreted and articulated by children. Specific focus is on the way that primary school children experience and talk about th…
Wrongdoing and Retribution: Children's Conceptions of Illness Causality in a Central Indian Village
This paper is a study of children's conceptions of illness causality. Based on ethnographic research in a central Indian tribal community, it is a response to the lack of systematic attention within mainstream anthropology on children, and within medical anthropology on children's understanding of illness causation. A combination of participant observation and structured interviews was used to examine local distinctions between ‘natural’ and ‘sup…
Ethnographies of Childhood and Childrearing
Childrearing and socialization continue to be important for a wider anthropological understanding of the production, reproduction, and transmission of cultural beliefs and practices. The four monographs reviewed here demonstrate a resurgence in anthropological analysis of children and childhood. This article examines the varying analytical avenues through which this research has recently been directed, including class and social inequality, ethni…
Educational failure and working class white children in Britain - By Evans, Gillian
Education, Inequality and Social Mobility in Central India
Children's moral reasoning about illness in Chhattisgarh, central India
This article is about children's moral reasoning about illness and supernatural retribution in a rural tribal community in Chhattisgarh, central India. Detailed ethnographic analysis is devoted to the norms and experiences within which conceptions about illness causality and morality are formed. The author is principally interested in the discrepancy between children's and adults' knowledge about moral accountability; in how children make sense o…
Learning, Livelihoods, and Social Mobility: Valuing Girls' Education in Central India
This article is concerned with the relationship between education, aspiration, and social mobility in Chhattisgarh, central India. I am interested in how the ideology of education as an intrinsic "social good" squares with the everyday experiences of marginalized adivasi (tribal) girls. My aim is to understand why education is differently valued by children and adults, and the ways in which girls' education-related aspirations are altered in rela…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning, Livelihoods, and Social Mobility
This special issue explores a variety of learning and educational strategies, their local meanings and relevance, and how these articulate with livelihood options within changing politico-economic conditions. By considering diverse ethnographic contexts and a multitude of educational and work environments, the papers bring into dialogue various anthropological themes on learning, education and apprenticeship, forms of capital, and the effects of …
Children's Films: A Response from Anthropology
This is a wonderful collection of films that has relevance to anthropology, and especially to an anthropology that both privileges the perspectives of children and recognises the important insights...
Adivasi young people and the risk of education in rural Chhattisgarh
In rural Chhattisgarh, central India, some people regard school education as intrinsically beneficial. Many others, however, consider it to be an expensive and risky means to an end that is not attainable by people like themselves: marginalized adivasis who lack the requisite forms of capital to translate their educational investment into a viable economic return. What gives rise to these contrasting perspectives? And what does this tell us about…
Inhabiting ‘childhood’: Children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India
Inhabiting ‘childhood’: children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India." Children's Geographies, 15(4), pp. 501–502
Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations
In this editorial introduction to the Special Issue Youth, Aspirations and the Life Course: Development and the social production of aspirations in young people's lives, we put the work presented in this collection in conversation with the wider literature on development, youth and aspirations. Aspiration we define as an orientation towards a desired future. We elaborate on our conceptualisation of aspirations as socially produced and reflect on …
Education, Aspiration and aage badhna: The Role of Schooling in Facilitating ‘Forward Movement’ in Rural Chhattisgarh, India
This article explores the role of education in marginalised young people’s aspirations for aage badhna (forward movement). Drawing on ethnographic research in rural Chhattisgarh, central India, we show how young people’s orientations toward a desired future remain anchored in education, even when possibilities for education-related forward movement become unattainable. The way in which aspirations are translated into locally viable outcomes, we s…
Sacrifice, suffering and hope: Education, aspiration and young people’s affective orientations to the future
In this editorial introduction to the Special Theme, Sacrifice, Suffering and Hope: Education, Aspiration and Young People’s Affective Orientations to the Future, we discuss the key theoretical themes (aspiration, sacrifice and affect) that underpin the papers in this collection. With geographical focus on India, Indonesia, Kenya and Bangladesh, our aim is to contribute a more ethnographically-grounded understanding of the affective orientations …
Young People's Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future
The future for young people worldwide is characterised by multiple uncertainties, particularly perhaps in countries of the Global South. There is a growing and pervasive expectation that these uncertainties need to be responded to, both by institutions and individuals, so that young people are prepared for an unpredictable and changing world. 'Raising aspirations' is expected to play an instrumental role in preparing young people to confront a co…
Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility: Uncertain Futures for Rural Youth in India
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