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Residential Care of Children
For centuries, societies have relied upon residential care settings to provide homes for children, and for much of that period a debate has raged over whether such settings are appropriate places for children to be raised. In recent years this debate has taken on an international dimension as human rights policies have called into question the legitimacy of residential care of children. Unfortunately, the ideological fervor that usually accompanies such discussions prevents a more nuanced understanding of the reasons that countries continue to make use of residential care. Residential Care of Children: Comparative Perspectives fills major gaps in knowledge about residential care and is inten...
At Home in the Street
This book lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children.
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Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court. In nineteenth-century Brazil, countless enslaved and freed women and men appealed to court to claim their right to freedom or that of family members. Taken as a whole, these legal suits create a narrative against the institution of slavery. By analyzing 30 individual cases (1810–1881) from various parts of imperial Brazil, this book demonstrates the intricate strategies of argumentation that lawyers and plaintiffs conceived to prove the right to freedom of the parties involved and to convince the authorities of it. Enslaved per...
Children on the Streets of the Americas
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood
Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about them, and revises interpretations of the role of gender and reproduction within them. First, about the preponderance of women and children in manumission; second, about the association of black female mobility with intimate inter-racial relations; third, about the racialised and gendered routes to freed status; and fourth, about the legacies of West African female socio-economic behaviours for modalities of family and fr...
Voice, Choice, and Action
Compiling decades of fieldwork, two acclaimed scholars offer strategies for strengthening democracies by nurturing the voices of children and encouraging public awareness of their role as citizens. Voice, Choice, and Action is the fruit of the extraordinary personal and professional partnership of a psychiatrist and a neurobiologist whose research and social activism have informed each other for the last thirty years. Inspired by the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Felton Earls and Mary Carlson embarked on a series of international studies that would recognize the voice of children. In Romania they witnessed the consequences of infant institutionalization under the...
Conquistadores de la Calle
The first comprehensive, book-length study of its kind, Conquistadores de la Calle presents the findings of nearly two years of ethnographic research on the streets of Guatemala City, toppling conventional wisdom that the region's youth workers are solely victims, or that their labor situations are entirely the result of poverty and family breakdown. Documenting the voices and experiences of the city's working children, this fascinating study reveals counterintuitive motivations for those who choose to abandon schooling in favor of participating more fully in their families' economies. The processes of developing skills and planning for their social and economic futures are covered in depth,...
Cartografias da cidade (in)visível
Enfocando práticas de escrita e letramento dos pobres, daqueles que sempre consideramos excluídos do mundo culto, Cartografias da Cidade (In)Visível delineia um quadro renovado. Enveredando por abordagens novas, o livro mostra como alguns que, tidos como excepcionais, pois de origem popular e negros, produziam a escrita educada dos romances, poesias ou artigos de jornal - como Machado de Assis e Lima Barreto - eram também produtos do sistema escolar do Império, menos excludente do que supomos. A maioria, no entanto, se inseria no universo escrito pelas bordas, por meio de formas de letramento que costumamos chamar de incompletas, mas que se revelam como estratégias de inclusão significativas. Recuperar a participação de escravos, libertos e livres no mundo fechado da alta cultura e da escrita nos permite superar mais uma barreira que, por muito tempo, antepôs aqueles que tiveram o privilégio de fazer a história - de narrá-la segundo seus pontos de vista - aos que, aparentemente, apenas a tinham sofrido!
