Theorizing children's subjectivity: Ethnographic investigations in rural Rwanda. (August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Williams, Timothy P
• Other Names: Abebe Tatek guest-editor.; Ofosu-Kusi Yaw guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Childhood. Volume 23:Number 3(2016:Aug.)
• Page Start: 333
• Page End: 347
• Publication Date: 2016-08
• Subjects: Aspiration -- childhood -- conflict -- education -- ethnography -- Rwanda -- schooling -- subjectivity; Children -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; Children -- Research -- Periodicals; 305.23
• DOI: 10.1177/0907568216644031
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0907-5682

Abstract

The importance of approaching the study of young people through their own experiences has been well established in the sociological and anthropological records. But less attention has been paid to how the impersonal forces of history and political economy are constituted throughout the social domain to inform those experiences. Drawing from 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Rwanda, this article elaborates upon the concept and application of "subjectivity" in the study of children's lives.