Programme for Comparative Democracy Centre for the study of Developing Societies
CONFERENCE ON CHILDHOODS AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN INDIA

Lokniti- CSDS organized an international conference on Childhoods and Children’s Rights in India from 10-11 November 2008 at CSDS, Delhi. The conference is part of the project on Democracy and Children’s Rights in India and UK: Law Policy and Outcome which has been taken up by CSDS In partnership with University of Essex since July 2007. The project is part of the UK India Education Research Initiatives (UKIERI).

Paper presented during the Conference are as follows:

He could have been made a good Dewan in a Native State! Can there be an Indiann Boyhood? Alex M. George of Azim Premji Foundation, Bangalore;
State, Civil Society and Dilemmas of ‘Mainstreaming’ Child Labourers: The Discourse on Eradication of Child Labour with Reference to Karnataka, Anil Kumar, Centre for Political Institutions Governance and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, Karnataka;
Television and Children: Negotiating ideal childhood and Ideal Parenting, Arima Mishra, Delhi School Of Economics, Delhi;
Children as Resistant Subjects: In the ‘Political Society’ of Children of Sex Workers’ in Kolkata, Debolina Dutta & Oishik Sircar, Independent Researchers, Kolkata, West Bengal;
Notes on “Different Tales: Stories from Marginal Cultures and Regional Languages, Deepa Sreenivas, Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad;
Was it childhood that was ‘reformed’ in colonial India? Emma Alexander-Mudaliar, University of Winnipeg;
Un/thinking children in development: A contribution from northern anti developmental psychology, Erica Burman, Manchester Metropolitan University;
Adult Perception of Childhood in a Colonial Situation: A Study in Children’s Literature of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Bengal, Gautam Chando Roy, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal;
The social networks of child domestic workers in India, Karen Wells & Shaziah Wasiuzzaman, Birkbeck College, University of London;
Ideals of Hindu Girlhood: Vidyabharati's Balika Shikshan, Nadini Manjerekar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai;
Ideals of Hindu Girlhood: Vidyabharati's Balika Shikshan, Nadini Manjerekar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai;
The right not to play: Long-distance migration, education and children’s struggle for respectability in a Kerala village, Olga Nieuwenhuys, University of Amsterdam
Pathologising Childhood, Disabling Rights: Talking About Disabled Children in a Rights Framework, Saptarshi Mandal, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata;
Determining ‘rights’ of girl child prostitutes in India: Politics and issue framing (provisional title), Vicky Randall, University of Essex;
Children's accounts of combining work and education in cottonseed production in Andhra Pradesh: implications for discourses of children's rights in India, Virginia Morrow, University of London and Uma Vennam, Dept of Social Work, Tirupat
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