History 288cg - Colloquium: Aspects of World History-Childhood and Youth in the Global South

This comparative course invites you to explore the history of childhood and youth in the Global South during the past five centuries. Questions we will ask include: What political and symbolic meanings have been attached to the categories of “child” and “youth” in different times and places? What are some of the lived experiences of young people around the world in their roles as workers, members of families, and targets of state policy? To what extent have children and youth been constrained by norms and institutions made by adults, and when have they been able to resist these strictures? Enrollment limited to 18. (E)