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Anthropology | Sociology G “This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which e they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, n Generations economic, and political resources available to them. It provides an e excellent example of how anthropology matters to our understand- r ing of the contemporary world and its global restructuring.” a and —Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University t i Contributors o Globalization Jennifer Cole Sarah Lamb Andrea Muehlebach n Deborah Durham Julie Livingston Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez s Jessica Greenberg Roger Magazine T. E. Woronov a n Globalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care, and the daily decisions through d which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Mexico, the United States, Europe, India, and China, Generations and Globalization in- G Youth, Age, and vestigates the impact of globalization in the context of families, age groups, and intergenerational relations. The contributors offer an innovative approach that l focuses on the changing dynamics between generations, rather than treating o Family in the changes in isolated categories of childhood, youth, or old age. They argue that b new economies and global fl ows do not just transform contemporary family life, New World but are in important ways shaped and constituted by it. a Economy l JENNIFER COLE is Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development i at the University of Chicago. z a DEBORAH DURHAM is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Sweet Briar College. t i o n Tracking Globalization—Robert J. Foster, editor C Cover photographs by Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez and Jennifer Cole. o Edited by l e a Jennifer Cole n d ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21870-4 D and ISBN-10: 0-253-21870-5 u r h INDIANA a Deborah Durham m University Press http://iupress.indiana.edu Bloomington & Indianapolis 1-800-842-6796 INDIANA Generations and Globalization tracking globalization robert j. foster, editor Editorial advisory board: Mohammed Bamyeh Lisa Cartwright Randall Halle Generations and Globalization Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy Edited by Jennifer Cole & Deborah Durham INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington & Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail [email protected] ∫ 2007 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum require- ments of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Generations and globalization : youth, age, and family in the new world economy / edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham. p. cm. — (Tracking globalization) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-253-34803-X (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 0-253-21870-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Intergenera- tional relations. 2. Age groups. 3. Globalization—Social aspects. I. Cole, Jennifer, date II. Durham, Deborah Lynn, date III. Series. hm726.g45 2007 305.209%0511—dc22 2006009629 1 2 3 4 5 12 11 10 09 08 07 Contents acknowledgments / vii Introduction: Age, Regeneration, and the Intimate Politics of Globalization Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham / 1 1. Chinese Children, American Education: Globalizing Child Rearing in Contemporary China T. E. Woronov / 29 2. Continuity and Change in San Pedro Tlalcuapan, Mexico: Childhood, Social Reproduction, and Transnational Migration Roger Magazine and Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez / 52 3. Fresh Contact in Tamatave, Madagascar: Sex, Money, and Intergenerational Transformation Jennifer Cole / 74 4. Empowering Youth: Making Youth Citizens in Botswana Deborah Durham / 102 5. Aging across Worlds: Modern Seniors in an Indian Diaspora Sarah Lamb / 132 6. Maintaining Local Dependencies: Elderly Women and Global Rehabilitation Agendas in Southeastern Botswana Julie Livingston / 164 7. The Old World and Its New Economy: Notes on the ‘‘Third Age’’ in Western Europe Today Jessica Greenberg and Andrea Muehlebach / 190 list of contributors / 215 index / 217 acknowledgments The final shape of this book is due to the critical input and support of many friends and colleagues. We would like to thank Jean Comaroff for her com- ments on the panel entitled ‘‘Global Ages: Childhood, Youth, and Old Age in a Time of Global Flows’’ that we put together for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in 2001. Smita Lahiri, Anne-Marie Leshkowich, Karen Strassler, Ajantha Subramanian, and Christine Walley, members of the Cambridge Writing Circle in 2003–2004, gave important feedback on an early draft of the introduction. T. E. Woronov and Julie Liv- ingston each gave helpful comments on the introduction as well. The anony- mous reviewers for Indiana University Press, our series editor Robert Foster, and our editor Rebecca Tolen all provided insightful comments on all of the essays individually and as a whole. Above all we want to thank the contributors to the volume for their work, their patience, and their faith that this project would, one day, come to fruition. Generations and Globalization
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