Childhood in Africa between Local Powers and Global Hierarchies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20084136
AutoresGéraldine André (0000-0001-7929-4942), Mathieu Hilgers
Año2015
Páginas120-141
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaChildhood with Bourdieu (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137384744_7
OpenAlexW2496339592
ISBN9781137384744
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas26

How do representations of childhood promoted and diffused by international institutions affect the social organisation of societies? Which type of schemata of practices and perceptions are disseminated through globalisation and the attempt to universalise a specific conception of childhood? What type of resistance do these discourses face? Do they reinforce a pre-existing system of social relations? Or do they shape a set of dispositions that leads individuals to behave differently? The theoretical apparatus developed by Bourdieu constitutes a powerful tool to approach these complex and decisive questions, to grasp childhood in the current neo-liberal era that contributes to reframing social dynamics of societies in the global South. Indeed, to tackle these questions, the main challenge consists of finding a way to analyse the transformative dialectic between institutionalised structures and embodied structures that shape the realm of childhood. Bourdieu theorised this dialectic through the relationship between two key concepts — field and habitus — at the heart of one of the most coherent and solid theoretical frameworks to engage in such an analysis

Cognitive reframing · Cultural capital · Dialectic · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Globalization · Habitus · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology