Margot Hillel, Shurlee Swain

Child, Nation, Race and Empire

Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850-1915

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Produktbeschreibung

Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire. It analyses the construction and transmission of nineteenth-century British child rescue ideology. Locating the origins of contemporary practice in the publications of the prominent English Child rescuers, Dr Barnardo, Thomas Bowman Stephenson, Benjamin Waugh, Edward de Montjoie Rudolf and their colonial disciples and literature written for children, it shows how the vulnerable body of the child at risk came to be reconstituted as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. Yet, as the shocking testimony before the many official enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home 'care' held in Britain, Ireland, Australia and Canada make clear, there was no guarantee that the rescued child would be protected from further harm.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780719078941
• ISBN-10: 0719078946
• Artikelnr.: 30881558

Autorenporträt

Margot Hillel is a Professor and Head of School at Australian Catholic University. Shurlee Swain is a Professor at Australian Catholic University and a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of figures Preface List of abbreviations 1. The child as
citizen 2. The gospel of child rescue 3. The body of the child 4. The body
of the nation 5. The salvation of the race 6. The salvation of the empire
7. A new orthodoxy in child protection practice 8. Lost, stolen or
forgotten: the legacy of the survivors Bibliography Index