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Children's narratives from rural India

Bibliographic Data

ID12601909
AuthorsPayal Arora (0000-0002-3578-340X, Columbia University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume11
Issue1
Pages69-86
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1367877907086394
OpenAlexW2157571025
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited43

In this article, story (re)productions by children in rural India are seen as a potential tool for addressing current `participatory' issues facing development practitioners. A project was implemented to involve children from a rural village in South India in e-literary storybook productions. The intention was to foster online representations of the rural voice through the lens of the child. Drawing on the material of children's stories, multiple subjectivities are revealed that compel us to reconsider relations of the 'rural' with technology and current social contexts. An analysis of these narratives highlights children's appropriation capabilities as they weave the 'urbanness' and 'global' with the 'rural' fabric, moving beyond the traditional discourse of the urban—rural dichotomy. This effort capitalizes on current theorizations of territory as scapes, making the case to harness children's stories to enlighten the adult, well-intentioned development practitioner who seeks genuine understanding of territory and practice

Appropriation · Art · Citizen journalism · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Taxis · Child Development and Digital Technology · Children's Rights and Participation · Engineering · Gender Studies · ICT in Developing Communities · Law

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