Sarada Balagopalan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarada Balagopalan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarada |
| FAMILY NAME | Balagopalan |
| SIGNATURE | BALAGOPALAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Performative innocence’
On racialized linear time and temporal 'othering
The Politics of Children’s Rights and Representation
This open access book investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children
Celebrating Childhood's 30th anniversary
Teaching 'global childhoods' in Childhood Studies
Childhood studies programs and generic social science programs in universities across the world increasingly offer courses that in some way focus on ‘global childhoods’. For this webinar, we will bring into conversations four prominent scholars who, based on their teaching and research experiences on ‘global childhoods’, will explore and reflect on four sets of ideas: theoretical and empirical framing of ‘global childhoods’, questions around inte…
Politics of Children's Rights and Representation
Precarity and the question of children's relationalities
Global/local' research on children and childhood in a 'global society
Inhabiting 'Childhood': Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India
Inhabiting 'Childhood'
Introduction
Rationalizing seclusion
The increased focus on issues of gender and schooling in India over the last decade has produced several gains that include more incentive schemes to make girls attend school, greater employment of women teachers and improved efforts to incorporate female protagonists in textbooks. However, a closer reading of this 'gender' focus reveals an inordinate concern with numbers, i.e. enrolment. The instrumentalism that underlies these efforts is reveal…
Neither Suited for the Home nor for the Fields’
Dalit and Adivasi Children in Schools
Constructing indigenous childhoods
Through interrogating our prevailing understanding of childhoods of the poor in the Third World as `traditional', this article attempts to make apparent the significant break that colonialism signified in these lives. It does so through locating a Calcutta street child's vocational education experiences within a historical understanding of the workings of colonial education policies. The effort in the article is to highlight the effects of these …
Global/local' research on children and childhood in a 'global society
Precarity and the question of children's relationalities
Dalit and Adivasi Children in Schools
Constructing indigenous childhoods
Through interrogating our prevailing understanding of childhoods of the poor in the Third World as `traditional', this article attempts to make apparent the significant break that colonialism signified in these lives. It does so through locating a Calcutta street child's vocational education experiences within a historical understanding of the workings of colonial education policies. The effort in the article is to highlight the effects of these …
Introduction
On racialized linear time and temporal 'othering
Neither Suited for the Home nor for the Fields’
Rationalizing seclusion
The increased focus on issues of gender and schooling in India over the last decade has produced several gains that include more incentive schemes to make girls attend school, greater employment of women teachers and improved efforts to incorporate female protagonists in textbooks. However, a closer reading of this 'gender' focus reveals an inordinate concern with numbers, i.e. enrolment. The instrumentalism that underlies these efforts is reveal…
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children
Constructing indigenous childhoods
Through interrogating our prevailing understanding of childhoods of the poor in the Third World as `traditional', this article attempts to make apparent the significant break that colonialism signified in these lives. It does so through locating a Calcutta street child's vocational education experiences within a historical understanding of the workings of colonial education policies. The effort in the article is to highlight the effects of these …
Neither Suited for the Home nor for the Fields’
Dalit and Adivasi Children in Schools
Rationalizing seclusion
The increased focus on issues of gender and schooling in India over the last decade has produced several gains that include more incentive schemes to make girls attend school, greater employment of women teachers and improved efforts to incorporate female protagonists in textbooks. However, a closer reading of this 'gender' focus reveals an inordinate concern with numbers, i.e. enrolment. The instrumentalism that underlies these efforts is reveal…
Introduction
Inhabiting 'Childhood': Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India
Inhabiting 'Childhood'
Global/local' research on children and childhood in a 'global society
Precarity and the question of children's relationalities
Politics of Children's Rights and Representation
The Politics of Children’s Rights and Representation
This open access book investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children
Celebrating Childhood's 30th anniversary
Teaching 'global childhoods' in Childhood Studies
Childhood studies programs and generic social science programs in universities across the world increasingly offer courses that in some way focus on ‘global childhoods’. For this webinar, we will bring into conversations four prominent scholars who, based on their teaching and research experiences on ‘global childhoods’, will explore and reflect on four sets of ideas: theoretical and empirical framing of ‘global childhoods’, questions around inte…
On racialized linear time and temporal 'othering
‘Performative innocence’
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · History (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works)