Pillars of the nation child citizens and Ugandan national development /
Cheney, Kristen E.
Pillars of the nation child citizens and Ugandan national development / [electronic resource] : Kristen E. Cheney. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - x, 299 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Introduction: the role of Ugandan child citizens in the struggle for national development -- Global rights discourses, national developments, and local childhoods -- Crucial components of child citizenship -- "Education for all": the dilemma of children's educational attainment, national development, and class mobility -- "Speaking the English of a Ugandan person": the intersections of children's identity formation -- Children's political socialization: engagement and disempowerment -- Actualizations -- "Village life is better than town life": identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens -- "Our children have only known war": the predicament of children and childhood in northern Uganda -- "Did the constitution produce my children!?" Cultural production and contestation in Uganda's national primary school music festivals -- Epilogue.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Children's rights--Uganda.
Children--Social conditions.--Uganda
Children and war--Uganda.
Electronic books.
HQ792.U3 / C47 2007
305.23096761/090511
Pillars of the nation child citizens and Ugandan national development / [electronic resource] : Kristen E. Cheney. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - x, 299 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Introduction: the role of Ugandan child citizens in the struggle for national development -- Global rights discourses, national developments, and local childhoods -- Crucial components of child citizenship -- "Education for all": the dilemma of children's educational attainment, national development, and class mobility -- "Speaking the English of a Ugandan person": the intersections of children's identity formation -- Children's political socialization: engagement and disempowerment -- Actualizations -- "Village life is better than town life": identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens -- "Our children have only known war": the predicament of children and childhood in northern Uganda -- "Did the constitution produce my children!?" Cultural production and contestation in Uganda's national primary school music festivals -- Epilogue.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Children's rights--Uganda.
Children--Social conditions.--Uganda
Children and war--Uganda.
Electronic books.
HQ792.U3 / C47 2007
305.23096761/090511