Childhood and Youth in South Asia

Winter 2007 • Jane Dyson • SISSA 490A

This interdisciplinary course explores childhood and youth in South Asia. The course is divided into three parts. In the first part — ‘Orientations’ — we discuss theoretical approaches to studying childhood and youth in South Asia. The second part of the course is built around a set of themes relevant to an understanding of children’s and young people’s lives in the South Asian region, namely: work, education, violence, and health. The final part of the course — ‘Representing Youth’ — is concerned with issues of how young people are represented and represent themselves, and the political implications of these representations.