'Time-Out' in the Land of Apu

Download or read book 'Time-Out' in the Land of Apu written by Hia Sen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​ Within Childhood Research starkly different theoretical and empirical concerns characterize the global south-north divide. Hia Sen attempts to bridge the gap in Childhood Research which usually addresses childhoods differently according to their 'developing/developed', 'western/non-western' contexts, and finds its middle ground in the context of the urban middle classes in contemporary West Bengal. The author documents areas such as leisure practices and everyday lives of school children in India for three cohorts, where it is possible to have a comparative perspective of childhoods given the existing rich ethnographic and historical research on childhoods in other cultural contexts.