Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods

• Main Author: Butler, Rose (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Perspectives on Children and Young People, 7
• Subjects: Sociology.; Social policy.; Ethnology.; Social service.; Welfare state.; Sociology, general.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.; Social Anthropology.; Social Work and Community Development.; Politics of the Welfare State.

This book explores how rural children negotiate economic insecurity and difference. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural Australia, it shows that children draw on class-based ideas of moral worth, anchored in racialised and gendered understandings, to negotiate financial hardship and in...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Children in an Insecure Economy
• Chapter 2. Economy, Identity and Fairness
• Chapter 3. Researching Childhoods
• Chapter 4. Going without: dignity and resentment
• Chapter 5. Staying within: politics of difference
• Chapter 6. Cutting down: entitlement and solidarity
• Chapter 7: Stigma and boundary work
• Conclusion.