History of education in Brazil: the construction of a knowledge field
Volume 50, Issue 6, December 2014, pages 822-829<br/>10.1080/00309230.2014.948007<br/>José Gonçalves Gondra
Archiv für September 2014
0096 Maria Chernysheva, „The Russian Gérôme“? Vereshchagin as a Painter of Turkestan
"The Russian Gérôme" – thus was Vereshchagin dubbed by English critics in 1872 and the comparison was repeatedly to be made by contemporaries. This article looks at where the two artists […]
Out of the East: From PDS to Left Party in Unified Germany
Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2014, pages 232-233<br/>10.1080/09644008.2014.962913<br/>Ben Rayder
Children’s agency and its contradictions in the context of transnational labour migration from Vietnam
In this article, we contribute to the growing and diverse literature on the lived experiences of children and their agency in the context of migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews with children whose migrant parents have left them behind, as well as with those who care for them in Vietnam, we demonstrate that the various ways in which they affect migration decision-making and transnational communication shape the children’s imaginations of migration. The context-specific social construction of childhood, or more specifically adult perceptions of children’s agency and needs, in turn structures these processes. We emphasize the need for debates on children’s agency to take into account both broader socio-economic processes at the macro level and the concrete and local scale at which children’s lives unfold. By outlining how children’s experiences of parental migration are constitutive of their attitudes toward this livelihood strategy, we also argue that the ability of those ‘left-behind’ to exercise agency is closely intertwined with processes of social becoming and navigation in the transnational social fields constructed for them by adults.
Volume 44 Index
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Sidney Montagu and the Sacramental Sign: Memorial and Sacred Objects in Post-Reformation England
Following three-year-old Henry Montagu’s death in 1625, his father installed a memorial comprised of three objects in Barnwell All Saints Church. In addition to an alabaster monument, Sidney Montagu incorporated into his memorial program a thirt…
New Books across the Disciplines
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Intimate Devotion: Recusant Martyrs and the Making of Relics in Post-Reformation England
As much recent work on recusancy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England has shown us, the Protestant Reformation did not instantaneously wipe out the remnants of Catholic belief. This essay takes up sixteenth- and seventeenth-century recusant p…
Water and Wood: Ecomateriality and Sacred Objects at the Chapel of Saint-Fiacre, Le Faouet (Brittany)
The devotional complex of the chapel of Saint-Fiacre in Brittany offers an exceptional opportunity to consider the role of the natural world in the construction of the sacred in the late Middle Ages. Interactions between landscape, architecture, and r…
Manuscript as Sacred Object: Robert Hegge’s N-Town Plays
Collectors of medieval religious drama manuscripts routinely bequeathed their names to the play texts they preserved; the titles of the Towneley cycle, the Digby plays, and the Macro plays attest to the importance of prominent bookish intermediaries i…