Kathie Carpenter

Life in a Cambodian Orphanage

A Childhood Journey for New Opportunities

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining detailed observations of children's daily life in a Cambodian orphanage with follow-up interviews of the same children after they have grown and left, this book shows how orphanages can be configured to meet children's developmental needs, providing evidence that they are not always bleak sites of deprivation and despair.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 4g
• ISBN-13: 9781978804852
• ISBN-10: 1978804857
• Artikelnr.: 60152570

Autorenporträt

KATHIE CARPENTER is an associate professor of global studies at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 
2 History of Orphanages in Cambodia 
3 Orphanage Tourism and the Anti-Orphanage-Tourism Campaign 
4 Methods
5 The Rhythms of Daily Life in the Orphanage 
6 The Orphanage Remembered: Milestones and Experiences 
7 Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead: Interpreting the COC Experience 
8 Discussion and Conclusions 
Acknowledgments
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index