By Hia Sen
Within adolescence examine starkly various theoretical and empirical matters represent the worldwide south-north divide. Hia Sen makes an attempt to bridge the space in formative years learn which typically addresses childhoods another way based on their 'developing/developed', 'western/non-western' contexts, and reveals its center flooring within the context of the city heart periods in modern West Bengal. the writer files components equivalent to relaxation practices and daily lives of faculty teenagers in India for 3 cohorts, the place it truly is attainable to have a comparative standpoint of childhoods given the prevailing wealthy ethnographic and historic study on childhoods in different cultural contexts.
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