Children’s Places

Karen Fog Olwig is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is author of Global Culture, Island Identity (Harwood,1993) and co-editor of Work and Migration (Routledge, 2002)., Eva Gullov is a Senior Lecturer at the Danish University of Education in Copenhagen, and a co-founder of the Network for Cross-Cultural Child Studies.

Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Children's Places examines the ways in which children and adults, from their different vantage-points in society, negotiate the 'proper place' of children in both social and spatial terms.

Chapter 1 Towards an anthropology of children and place, Karen Fog Olwig, Eva Gulløv; Part 1 Part I Place as a site of opportunity and control; Chapter 2 Creating a natural place for children, Eva Gulløv; Chapter 3 Restricted experiences in a conflict society, Laura Gilliam; Chapter 4 The Smith children go out to school - and come home again, Francine Lorimer; Chapter 5 How will the children come home?, Laura Hammond; Part 2 Place as a site in the field of generational relations; Chapter 6 Growing up between places of work and non-places of childhood, Olga Nieuwenhuys; Chapter 7 Common neighbourhoods-diversified lives, Hilde Lidén; Chapter 8 Associationless children, Anderson Sally; Chapter 9 Changing place, changing position, Erick Otieno Nyambedha, Jens Aagaard-Hansen; Part 3 Place as a source of belonging; Chapter 10 Sweet and bitter places, Lotte Meinert; Chapter 11 'Imagined communities', Anne Trine Kjørholt; Chapter 12 Children's places of belonging in immigrant families of Caribbean background, Karen Fog Olwig; Chapter 13 Epilogue, Vered AmitINDEX;