Balagopalan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4203 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Balagopalan |
| SOBRENOME | Balagopalan |
| ASSINATURA | BALAGOPALAN |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6102-7085 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
‘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…
Introduction
This Introduction sets up a binary framing between the ‘marginal child’ and the ‘subaltern student’ to help contextualize this Special Issue’s efforts to frame educational exclusions in India within a longer history of modernity, childhood and the democratization of schooling. Broadly speaking, the ‘marginal child’ refers to discourses that focus on the ‘victimhood’ of particular populations of children while leveraging their hypothetical schoole…
The politics of deferral
Do poor people love their children less? In the case of child laborers, this seemingly straightforward question has generated a range of complex responses. This includes research within the value of children (VOC) framework with its tendency to pathologize parents by framing discussions on children's labor within household-based economic decision-making. In a stark departure from this framework, this article, focused on India, foregrounds the key…
Precarity and the question of children's relationalities
Why historicize rights-subjectivities? Children's rights, compulsory schooling, and the deregulation of child labor in India
How might we interpret the continuing inability of most marginal populations in the majority world to make claims based on the legal guarantees made available by the new regime of child rights governance? Through a focus on India, this article attempts to answer this question by foregrounding the critical contribution that historicizing rights-subjectivities in postcolonial contexts can make to our current research. It combines postcolonial theor…
Afterschool and during vacations’
The Indian state's recent deregulation of child labor, several years after it passed a law making schooling free and compulsory, forces us to attend to the distinct dynamic between child labor and schooling that frame contemporary efforts around compulsory education. This paper opens-up this terrain through historicizing the child-figure – who combines school with wage labor – within the workings of colonial and postcolonial capitalism. It discus…
Global/local' research on children and childhood in a 'global society
Childhood in a Sri Lankan village
How do Sri Lankan children become so well-mannered, especially when they appear to be over-indulged at a younger age in comparison to their US-counterparts? This key question is what drives Bambi C
Inhabiting 'Childhood'
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 …
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 …
Re-forming Lives
In the early nineties, Calcutta, a city that has long been identified with the charity of Mother Teresa, began to experience a radically different kind of philanthropic affect. Elaborating itself through newer NGOs and charity organizations, this new secular humanitarianism gathered around a figure who was previously noticed, but not spectralized or ‘recognized’, as a singular target of reform. This was the figure of the ‘street child’. In post-p…
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age
Global/local' research on children and childhood in a 'global society
Why historicize rights-subjectivities? Children's rights, compulsory schooling, and the deregulation of child labor in India
How might we interpret the continuing inability of most marginal populations in the majority world to make claims based on the legal guarantees made available by the new regime of child rights governance? Through a focus on India, this article attempts to answer this question by foregrounding the critical contribution that historicizing rights-subjectivities in postcolonial contexts can make to our current research. It combines postcolonial theor…
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 …
Afterschool and during vacations’
The Indian state's recent deregulation of child labor, several years after it passed a law making schooling free and compulsory, forces us to attend to the distinct dynamic between child labor and schooling that frame contemporary efforts around compulsory education. This paper opens-up this terrain through historicizing the child-figure – who combines school with wage labor – within the workings of colonial and postcolonial capitalism. It discus…
Introduction
On racialized linear time and temporal 'othering
Neither Suited for the Home nor for the Fields’
Introduction
This Introduction sets up a binary framing between the ‘marginal child’ and the ‘subaltern student’ to help contextualize this Special Issue’s efforts to frame educational exclusions in India within a longer history of modernity, childhood and the democratization of schooling. Broadly speaking, the ‘marginal child’ refers to discourses that focus on the ‘victimhood’ of particular populations of children while leveraging their hypothetical schoole…
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
The politics of deferral
Do poor people love their children less? In the case of child laborers, this seemingly straightforward question has generated a range of complex responses. This includes research within the value of children (VOC) framework with its tendency to pathologize parents by framing discussions on children's labor within household-based economic decision-making. In a stark departure from this framework, this article, focused on India, foregrounds the key…
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
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 …
Inhabiting 'Childhood'
Childhood in a Sri Lankan village
How do Sri Lankan children become so well-mannered, especially when they appear to be over-indulged at a younger age in comparison to their US-counterparts? This key question is what drives Bambi C
Afterschool and during vacations’
The Indian state's recent deregulation of child labor, several years after it passed a law making schooling free and compulsory, forces us to attend to the distinct dynamic between child labor and schooling that frame contemporary efforts around compulsory education. This paper opens-up this terrain through historicizing the child-figure – who combines school with wage labor – within the workings of colonial and postcolonial capitalism. It discus…
Global/local' research on children and childhood in a 'global society
Why historicize rights-subjectivities? Children's rights, compulsory schooling, and the deregulation of child labor in India
How might we interpret the continuing inability of most marginal populations in the majority world to make claims based on the legal guarantees made available by the new regime of child rights governance? Through a focus on India, this article attempts to answer this question by foregrounding the critical contribution that historicizing rights-subjectivities in postcolonial contexts can make to our current research. It combines postcolonial theor…
Precarity and the question of children's relationalities
Introduction
This Introduction sets up a binary framing between the ‘marginal child’ and the ‘subaltern student’ to help contextualize this Special Issue’s efforts to frame educational exclusions in India within a longer history of modernity, childhood and the democratization of schooling. Broadly speaking, the ‘marginal child’ refers to discourses that focus on the ‘victimhood’ of particular populations of children while leveraging their hypothetical schoole…
The politics of deferral
Do poor people love their children less? In the case of child laborers, this seemingly straightforward question has generated a range of complex responses. This includes research within the value of children (VOC) framework with its tendency to pathologize parents by framing discussions on children's labor within household-based economic decision-making. In a stark departure from this framework, this article, focused on India, foregrounds the key…
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…
Re-forming Lives
In the early nineties, Calcutta, a city that has long been identified with the charity of Mother Teresa, began to experience a radically different kind of philanthropic affect. Elaborating itself through newer NGOs and charity organizations, this new secular humanitarianism gathered around a figure who was previously noticed, but not spectralized or ‘recognized’, as a singular target of reform. This was the figure of the ‘street child’. In post-p…
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age
On racialized linear time and temporal 'othering
‘Performative innocence’
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