<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><b style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10px; "><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">CFP: South Asian Childhoods: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives</font></font></b><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div id="yiv2082575410"><div class="yiv2082575410gmail_quote"><div><div style="direction: ltr; font-size: 10px; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma">
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<div style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="yiv2082575410MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for scholars studying diverse childhoods in South Asia.<span>
</span>We also aim to enrich our understandings of contemporary children’s lives through historical perspectives.<span>
</span>The conference will be held at the Australian National University in Canberra from 18<sup>th</sup> – 19<sup>th</sup> of July, 2013.<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="yiv2082575410MsoNormal"><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">When we consider that children are marginalized by age in relation to structures of power – as well as, caste, class and gender –
they in fact constitute multiple subaltern groups.<span>
</span>The critical interrogation of the concept of childhood and experiences of children is timely and important.<span>
</span>Although there is intense theoretical and development interest in children in South Asia, children’s perspectives remain largely silent in political, social and economic debate.<span>
</span>Where children are the subject of adult speculation in development discourses, impacts on the lives of real children are often surprisingly underrepresented.<span>
</span>This workshop will locate children in important historical and social changes in contemporary India while foregrounding children’s stories and agency.<span>
</span>We aim for a convergence of innovative ideas around childhood, recognizing that this category is contested and raises important dilemmas for inter-disciplinary studies.<span>
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<div style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="yiv2082575410MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span>This workshop will bring together previously disparate threads of different disciplinary approaches to children and childhood, allowing
us within these two days to identify and develop convergences, conflicts, and aspects that may have been over-looked by one discipline, but explored in another.<span>
</span>The conference aims to highlight the methodological implications of research into the perspectives and experiences of children.<span>
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<div style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="yiv2082575410MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Some of the dilemmas and themes to be explored include:
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">children’s experiences, voices and stories<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">universal versus multiple childhoods and the historical and cultural specifities of conceptualizing childhood in South Asia
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">how we conceive of children’s agency in relation to structures of power
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">a critical interrogation of child rights discourse, and the gap between the rhetoric and reality of children’s participation
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">diverse childhoods across class and caste, with a particular focus upon marginalized children<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">how to methodologically approach children’s perspectives and experiences as adults and as scholars<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">experiences and discourses of gendered girlhoods and boyhoods<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">the significance of education in issues of social inequality, constructions of Indian nationalism and modernity.<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="yiv2082575410MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Topics that papers could consider include, but are not limited to:
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">childhood and modernity, development and consumption amidst rapid social and economic changes
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">institutions of childhood, including schools, hostels, early infant welfare centers, orphanages and youth organizations
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">the anthropology of education, ideologies and styles of pedagogy, and children’s experiences and agency within the classroom<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">children and medicine (children’s understandings and experiences of illness and healing; discourses surrounding children and health)<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">children’s cultures (including play and friendship)
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">South Asian children’s literature and children’s representation in literature
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">gender and sexuality <u></u>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">children in families (including changing domesticities, family relationships and structures of power, and sibling-caretaking)<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">children and violence (domestic, communal and state)
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</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">children and work.<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="yiv2082575410MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">We invite proposals from various scholarly disciplines (including anthropology, history, sociology, law and justice studies, development studies, cultural and visual studies,
etc), as well as representatives of organizations working specifically with issues surrounding youth and childhood.<u></u><u></u></font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="yiv2082575410MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Please submit 200-300 word abstracts for proposed papers by 10<sup>th</sup> January 2013 to either Dr. Zazie Bowen (</font><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Zazie.Bowen@anu.edu.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:Zazie.Bowen@anu.edu.au"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Zazie.Bowen@anu.edu.au</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri">)
or Jessica Hinchy (</font><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Jessica.Hinchy@anu.edu.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:Jessica.Hinchy@anu.edu.au"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Jessica.Hinchy@anu.edu.au</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"> ).</font></font></div><div style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="yiv2082575410MsoNormal"><u></u></div></font></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>