Generations and Globalization - 9780253218704

Generations and GlobalizationYouth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy\nAuthor(s): Jennifer Cole, Deborah Durham\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253218704, 978-0253218704\nSynopsis\n\""This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how anthropology matters to our understanding of the contemporary world and its global restructuring.\"" Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University\n Globalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care, and the daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Mexico, the [url] Europe, India, and China, Generations and Globalization investigates the impact of globalization.