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GENDERED AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONALITIES IN FUTURE ORIENTATIONS: GUATEMALAN SCHOOLCHILDREN’S REPORTS OF GENDER ROLES IN PRESENT AND FUTURE HOUSEHOLDS
No full textThis article examines children and youth’s future orientation in rural Guatemala by examining their reports of activities of adults and children in present and future households. A total of 690 students in a small town in highland Guatemala completed a household task attribution form that listed 29 tasks in seven domains (domestic chores, care for children, household decisions, responsibilities, household purchases, work for money, development) with four gendered household figures (man, woman, boy, girl). Using cultural consensus analysis, we analyze patterns of agreement and variation in responses to determine the existence of shared cultural models and gendered submodels in both time periods. Taking a gendered and intergenerational relationality perspective, we focus on the ways that future orientations reflect, (re)produce, and contest contemporary gender norms. Reports of task distributions in the present reflect “traditional” gender norms divided along “productive” and “reproductive” lines. While male participants’ conceptions of the future largely reproduced these structures, female participants appeared willing to increase their own domestic work to foster greater gender equality among their children
THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF AVIATION FUEL IN THE HEALTH-SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF CHILD MIGRANTS LIVING ALONG THE UGANDA–KENYA BORDER AT BUSIA
No full textThis study aimed to understand the health-seeking behaviors of the child migrants, commonly known as Chokola, who live along the Uganda–Kenya border at the town of Busia. The study used qualitative data collection methods: in-depth interviews, life-histories, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. At the border, Chokola are accorded a marginal status and identity, limiting their health rights. Chokola face many health challenges, some of which arise from risky sexual behaviors and practices. Their health problems include gonorrhea, HIV, malaria, and cholera. The Chokola in our study exhibited specific health-seeking behaviors, with sniffing aviation fuel being the most pronounced. Although this practice was intended to alleviate common ailments and discomfort, it was also reported to have side effects ranging from loss of appetite to early death. Sniffing aviation fuel as a health-seeking behavior is a construction of individuals. Chokola constructions of the efficacy of aviation fuel are inculcated during socialization and are supported by a shared belief in the fuel as a panacea. Scientific views regarding the risks of side effects are irrelevant to them. In terms of access to health services, Chokola are vulnerable and require affirmative action and targeted interventions
Towards Norms and Sanctions: Interwar Franco–Belgian Border Conflict over the Insalubrity of French Factories
No full textDownstream from the industrial French cities of Roubaix and Tourcoing, it took more than a century of exceptional insalubrity in the cross-border Espierre valley for France and Belgium to move towards the idea of adopting sanitary norms and sanctions to be imposed on French manufacturers. We propose to focus on the interwar period to try to understand the path that was followed for the different actors to agree on this idea. By tracing the history of an environmental controversy that was among the first to end up before an international jurisdiction, we highlight the important place this question had in the construction of Franco–Belgian border relations during a period of great tensions in Europe
Pacific Crab Apple Restoration at Kwiid Suu (Mayer Lake) on Haida Gwaii
No full textPacific crab apple (Malus fusca) is a plant of both cultural and ecological significance on Haida Gwaii. At Kwiid Suu (Mayer Lake), populations of Pacific crab apple have been severely reduced since theintroduction of the American beaver (Castor canadensis) and Sitka black tail deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis). Beaver feed on the inner cambium layer of trees, often girdling them in the process, and fall stems to build their dams; while deer browse limits the recruitment of young crab apple. The rapid decline of crab apple at Kwiid Suu was first observed in 2000, leading to a series of beaver control and riparian plant protection projects. Through the spring and summer of 2022, I observed 178 mature crab apple trees across 10 plots to gather data on the health of the remaining groves. I also counted the number of stumps, felled trees, and gathered information on recruitment by recording the abundance of seedlings and young trees within the plots. A total of 160 felled trees were recorded within the surveys and the majority of standing mature trees had signs of beaver chewing. Despite this heavy impact from beaver, crown dieback was low in 58% of trees surveyed and fruit production was generally consistent with observations elsewhere on Haida Gwaii. Regeneration was recorded as high or moderate in 80% of plots, however, seedling survivorship appeared to be very low with only 27 young trees found within the plots. Based on these results, I constructed a total of 21 exclosures that focused on protecting seedlings. I built four large crab apple exclosures that protected a mature crab apple tree along with seedlings or shoots growing around its root mass, and 17 cone exclosures around individual seedlings or bunches of shoots. The surveys have highlighted an extreme lack of crab apple recruitment. In some of the larger groves where mature trees can support regeneration, seedlings should be protected by exclosures. In areas where mature trees are no longer existent, seedling may need to be planted on site with protection
Refusing to Grow Old: The Antichronocratic Labour of Cypriot Activist Youth and What It Can Teach Us About Decolonizing Childhood and Related Knowledge Production
No full textThrough registering the chronopolitics of Cypriot teenage antiauthoritarian activists, this article explores the antichronocratic labour of children as a way to engage with processes of degrowth and to create dissident everyday temporalities through which to build alternative communities and relations in the present. It is argued that paying attention to such labour unsettles the hegemonic temporality of linear development and the individualized child of capitalist modernity while also troubling the consequent individual character of agency that has been hegemonic in childhood studies thus far. Such attention must infuse research on childhood(s) in its attempt to decolonize childhood and related knowledge production
“The Ice is Melting and I Don’t Want Santa to Drown!”: Reflections on Childhood, Climate Action, and Futurity
No full textThis paper’s reading of a specific cultural artifact to emerge from children’s climate activism in contemporary Australia enacts an argument that children themselves can be seen to be redefining childhood and futurity through their climate activism and demonstrates how their placards are evidence of this. It argues that we as critical childhood scholars can follow their lead by uncovering the discourses that underpin their activist slogans. In doing so, we can set about contesting the limiting and disempowering discourses of childhood that would dismiss the very idea of children as political participants in the fight to save the planet
Re (Imagining) Water Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education and Care Programs
No full textThis paper discusses possibilities of relational world making with water. Many Canadian early childhood education and care programs continue to engage water through a developmentalist lens, such as through practices that focus on containing, extracting, and trapping water. Children’s explorations, such as with sensory water bottles and water tables, are predominantly viewed through narrow learning and developmental milestones. This deficit perspective maintains colonial and commodified relations with water. This paper presents some ways children and early childhood educators can create liveable worlds with water. 
Marginalized Children’s Views of School Choice in Global Cities: The Significance of Neighbourhood and Nature
No full textThis study aims to illuminate the perspectives of 40 marginalized children about school choice in two global cities in Canada. It builds on the sociology of school choice and critical geography, with a focus on children. By utilizing mixed-methods geospatial research, this study finds that children prefer attending a neighbourhood school where they feel supported by the community and experience daily connections to nature. These children’s perspectives offer new insights into how to move beyond neoliberal market reforms by pursuing transformative and decolonial approaches to educational policy making