"From the Margins Looking In: The child- state relationship revisited" talk by Dr. Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 4th September 2012

Time : 3:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘From the Margins Looking In: The child- state relationship revisited’ by Dr. Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan, Independent Scholar.

Abstract : The proposed talk will ask who all get to be included in the story of the nation-being-built. Based on the book,Growing Up & Away, Narratives of Indian Childhoods, Memory, History, Identity,( 2011) the presentation will explore what happens to our understanding of borders and boundaries, frontiers and faultiness, when children are included as participants in the making of meaning.
Memory, history and identity play central roles in how childhood is understood and experienced. The potential for violent clashes among and within communities largely involve disputes over history and destiny, linked as they are to the unresolved legacies of the partition of British India.
Through many historical decisions and select recent illustrations, the presentation will provide evidence of how some of those responses continue to resonate in the ways in which the State responds to situations of conflicted citizenship.
Growing Up & Away, Narratives of Indian Childhoods, Memory, History, Identity, traces the evolution of the child rights discourse in post-Independence India, suggesting that there are different and political ways of thinking about childhoods. It makes the point that more than any other event or process, the violence and fears aroused by Partition have influenced the course of modern child development policy-making, and the relationship between the political and cultural identities of all the actors who influence the experience of childhoods.  The link will provide more details. (www.growingupandaway.in)

Speaker : Dr. Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan began her career in journalism and has spent the past 15+ years in evidence-based social development programme planning and design, working both in India, and overseas.
She has a Masters degree in Development Studies, from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and a post graduate diploma in social journalism from the Times School.

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