“Is There Going to Be Another Competition Today?”
Contesting Development through Competition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19001319 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Mccarthy (0000-0002-0500-5199, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 91-111 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/sa.2022.660405 |
| OpenAlex | W4382241919 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
Valued for its affective and material affordances, competition has long been fundamental to children's participation in development. Despite this, the experiential and material worlds of child competitors have long been overlooked. Combining ethnographic insights from fieldwork in a Delhi NGO with archival sources and reflections on the legacies of Enlightenment philosophy, this article offers a child-centered corrective to Thomas Malaby's call to focus studies of games on institutions and their projects. Additionally, heeding Liisa Malkki's challenge to reconceptualize children as persons and not just as elementary forms of shared humanity, I argue that it is only through sustained engagement with children's experiences and material contributions to competition that we can properly understand how these frequently exceed—and trouble—institutional aims
Affordance · Business · Competitor analysis · Epistemology · Ethnography · Experiential learning · Humanity · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Marketing
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |