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Pillars of the nation : child citizens and Ugandan national development / Kristen E. Cheney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: x, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0226102475 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226102474 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226102483 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780226102481 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23096761/090511 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ792.U3 C47 2007
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Contents:
Introduction: the role of Ugandan child citizens in the struggle for national development -- Global rights discourses, national developments, and local childhoods -- Crucial components of child citizenship -- "Education for all": the dilemma of children's educational attainment, national development, and class mobility -- "Speaking the English of a Ugandan person": the intersections of children's identity formation -- Children's political socialization: engagement and disempowerment -- Actualizations -- "Village life is better than town life": identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens -- "Our children have only known war": the predicament of children and childhood in northern Uganda -- "Did the constitution produce my children!?" Cultural production and contestation in Uganda's national primary school music festivals -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.

Introduction: the role of Ugandan child citizens in the struggle for national development -- Global rights discourses, national developments, and local childhoods -- Crucial components of child citizenship -- "Education for all": the dilemma of children's educational attainment, national development, and class mobility -- "Speaking the English of a Ugandan person": the intersections of children's identity formation -- Children's political socialization: engagement and disempowerment -- Actualizations -- "Village life is better than town life": identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens -- "Our children have only known war": the predicament of children and childhood in northern Uganda -- "Did the constitution produce my children!?" Cultural production and contestation in Uganda's national primary school music festivals -- Epilogue.

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