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Conference Paper: Colonial childhoods and the making & undoing of empires
Title | Colonial childhoods and the making & undoing of empires |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2016 |
Citation | Horrible Histories: Children’s Lives in Historical Contexts Conference, London, UK, 16-18 June 2016 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Conference abstract: It is now over forty years since the bold declaration of psychohistorian Lloyd deMause that ‘The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken’. Stirred by such claims, scholars have subsequently tested the ‘nightmare thesis’ for both the pre-modern and modern eras, locating children’s agency in unexpected places and stressing the contingencies of context, gender, ethnicity, age, class, caste and sexuality. Narratives of historic and contemporary institutional abuse, however, together with insights concerning the legacies of forced child migration, children’s labours and other challenging aspects of childhood experience, suggest that sorrow rather than joy characterises much scholarship on children and childhood. Should this be so? |
Description | Keynote address Hosts: Children’s History Society & Kings College London |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/239715 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Pomfret, DM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-30T10:00:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-30T10:00:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Horrible Histories: Children’s Lives in Historical Contexts Conference, London, UK, 16-18 June 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/239715 | - |
dc.description | Keynote address | - |
dc.description | Hosts: Children’s History Society & Kings College London | - |
dc.description.abstract | Conference abstract: It is now over forty years since the bold declaration of psychohistorian Lloyd deMause that ‘The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken’. Stirred by such claims, scholars have subsequently tested the ‘nightmare thesis’ for both the pre-modern and modern eras, locating children’s agency in unexpected places and stressing the contingencies of context, gender, ethnicity, age, class, caste and sexuality. Narratives of historic and contemporary institutional abuse, however, together with insights concerning the legacies of forced child migration, children’s labours and other challenging aspects of childhood experience, suggest that sorrow rather than joy characterises much scholarship on children and childhood. Should this be so? | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Horrible Histories: Children’s Lives in Historical Contexts Conference | - |
dc.title | Colonial childhoods and the making & undoing of empires | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Pomfret, DM: pomfretd@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Pomfret, DM=rp01194 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 266054 | - |