Overview
- Offers a unique focus on the politics of childhood within humanitarian aid and international development
- Examines geographically diverse areas such as the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America
- Highlights the experiences of children targeted for aid
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development (PSCD)
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About the editors
Aviva Sinervo is a Lecturer of Anthropology at San Francisco State University and Human Development at California State University, East Bay, USA. She researches the moral and affective economies of child labor, international aid, volunteer tourism, and urban street vending; current interests include generational/maturational shifts in wage-earning strategies, cosmopolitanism, and government-NGO collaborations in Peru.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention
Book Subtitle: Processes of Affective Commodification and Objectification
Editors: Kristen Cheney, Aviva Sinervo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01623-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01622-7Published: 19 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01623-4Published: 07 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-5724
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5732
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 232
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development and Children, Development Aid, Development and Sustainability, Development Policy, Regional Development