María Florencia Amigó
Biographic Data
| ID | 72206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Florencia Amigó |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Florencia |
| FAMILY NAME | Amigó |
| SIGNATURE | AMIGÓ M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8091-2760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The transformational possibilities of a peer education program to address child marriage in Nepal
Peer education has been a popular strategy in health promotion campaigns willing to reach large populations at manageable costs. The modality has been critiqued for engaging a poorly trained and cheap workforce; however, it is still broadly utilised in development programmes. By focusing on qualitative data obtained from programme stakeholders for the final evaluation of an intervention to address child marriage in Nepal that made use of peer edu…
Indigenous epistemologies of childhood in contexts of inequality
Drawing on long-term ethnographies with children, the authors (anthropologists from the "Global South") problematize the disconnect between homogenising discourses around "childhood", and the localised, socio-culturally rich experiences of indigenous children. Through an anthropological lens in dialogue with post-colonial theory they explore vernacular conceptualisations and practices around childhood in three indigenous communities -two in Argen…
Volunteering for children or volunteering with children? A co-creation initiative to prepare student volunteers
This article delves into the controversies of student volunteers working around children in developing world contexts, by proposing a model where the organisations that send and those that receive volunteers can collaborate to ensure volunteers’ purposeful involvement. The article is based on the results of a collaborative initiative between an Australian university and its international non-governmental partner organisations who receive student …
Green sprouts
This article explores the transformative learning effects of university courses that integrate academic learning with practical experience, highlighting in particular the tripartite learning that may occur where students are encouraged to work collaboratively with external partners as well as with their university teachers. We make the proposition that the student can act as the catalyst for this emancipatory perspective, and that critical reflec…
Confronting School
While children remain at the center of families’ decisions to emigrate, the global contexts and technologies that allow diasporas to remain connected to their cultures have influenced families’ aspirations in relation to their children’s education. This article presents data from a qualitative study on how immigrant families negotiate the schooling of their children in Australia. Findings highlight there are incongruencies between immigrant paren…
Learning from the Children
Small Bodies, Large Contribution
Children contribute substantially to the workforce needed to produce tobacco in Indonesia. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss the reasons behind children's economic involvement in tobacco cultivation in the eastern region of the island of Lombok in eastern Indonesia. I explore children's paid work in the plantations by looking at the three dimensions of their economic lives: the local economy, their households and their ind…
Social Behaviour of Children
Child Space
Child Space: An Anthropological Exploration of Young People’s Use of Space M. Karen ( ed .). New Delhi : Concept Publishing Company , 2007 . 272 pp., bibliographic references, index, IRS 750 (Hc.) ; ISBN: 81-8069-433-X . Child Space is an interesting collection of ten essays edited by Karen Malone, Head of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong and the Asia-Pacific director of UNESCO’s Growing Up in Cities Project. This book is a valuabl…
Small Bodies, Large Contribution
Children contribute substantially to the workforce needed to produce tobacco in Indonesia. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss the reasons behind children's economic involvement in tobacco cultivation in the eastern region of the island of Lombok in eastern Indonesia. I explore children's paid work in the plantations by looking at the three dimensions of their economic lives: the local economy, their households and their ind…
Indigenous epistemologies of childhood in contexts of inequality
Drawing on long-term ethnographies with children, the authors (anthropologists from the "Global South") problematize the disconnect between homogenising discourses around "childhood", and the localised, socio-culturally rich experiences of indigenous children. Through an anthropological lens in dialogue with post-colonial theory they explore vernacular conceptualisations and practices around childhood in three indigenous communities -two in Argen…
The transformational possibilities of a peer education program to address child marriage in Nepal
Peer education has been a popular strategy in health promotion campaigns willing to reach large populations at manageable costs. The modality has been critiqued for engaging a poorly trained and cheap workforce; however, it is still broadly utilised in development programmes. By focusing on qualitative data obtained from programme stakeholders for the final evaluation of an intervention to address child marriage in Nepal that made use of peer edu…
Green sprouts
This article explores the transformative learning effects of university courses that integrate academic learning with practical experience, highlighting in particular the tripartite learning that may occur where students are encouraged to work collaboratively with external partners as well as with their university teachers. We make the proposition that the student can act as the catalyst for this emancipatory perspective, and that critical reflec…
Confronting School
While children remain at the center of families’ decisions to emigrate, the global contexts and technologies that allow diasporas to remain connected to their cultures have influenced families’ aspirations in relation to their children’s education. This article presents data from a qualitative study on how immigrant families negotiate the schooling of their children in Australia. Findings highlight there are incongruencies between immigrant paren…
Social Behaviour of Children
Child Space
Child Space: An Anthropological Exploration of Young People’s Use of Space M. Karen ( ed .). New Delhi : Concept Publishing Company , 2007 . 272 pp., bibliographic references, index, IRS 750 (Hc.) ; ISBN: 81-8069-433-X . Child Space is an interesting collection of ten essays edited by Karen Malone, Head of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong and the Asia-Pacific director of UNESCO’s Growing Up in Cities Project. This book is a valuabl…
Small Bodies, Large Contribution
Children contribute substantially to the workforce needed to produce tobacco in Indonesia. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss the reasons behind children's economic involvement in tobacco cultivation in the eastern region of the island of Lombok in eastern Indonesia. I explore children's paid work in the plantations by looking at the three dimensions of their economic lives: the local economy, their households and their ind…
Learning from the Children
Confronting School
While children remain at the center of families’ decisions to emigrate, the global contexts and technologies that allow diasporas to remain connected to their cultures have influenced families’ aspirations in relation to their children’s education. This article presents data from a qualitative study on how immigrant families negotiate the schooling of their children in Australia. Findings highlight there are incongruencies between immigrant paren…
Green sprouts
This article explores the transformative learning effects of university courses that integrate academic learning with practical experience, highlighting in particular the tripartite learning that may occur where students are encouraged to work collaboratively with external partners as well as with their university teachers. We make the proposition that the student can act as the catalyst for this emancipatory perspective, and that critical reflec…
Volunteering for children or volunteering with children? A co-creation initiative to prepare student volunteers
This article delves into the controversies of student volunteers working around children in developing world contexts, by proposing a model where the organisations that send and those that receive volunteers can collaborate to ensure volunteers’ purposeful involvement. The article is based on the results of a collaborative initiative between an Australian university and its international non-governmental partner organisations who receive student …
The transformational possibilities of a peer education program to address child marriage in Nepal
Peer education has been a popular strategy in health promotion campaigns willing to reach large populations at manageable costs. The modality has been critiqued for engaging a poorly trained and cheap workforce; however, it is still broadly utilised in development programmes. By focusing on qualitative data obtained from programme stakeholders for the final evaluation of an intervention to address child marriage in Nepal that made use of peer edu…
Indigenous epistemologies of childhood in contexts of inequality
Drawing on long-term ethnographies with children, the authors (anthropologists from the "Global South") problematize the disconnect between homogenising discourses around "childhood", and the localised, socio-culturally rich experiences of indigenous children. Through an anthropological lens in dialogue with post-colonial theory they explore vernacular conceptualisations and practices around childhood in three indigenous communities -two in Argen…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)