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Engaging with a world outside of ourselves : vistas of flatness, children's work and the urban informal economy
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Mizen, Phil and Ofosu-Kusi, Yaw (2012) Engaging with a world outside of ourselves : vistas of flatness, children's work and the urban informal economy. Sociological Research Online, Volume 17 (Number 2). doi:10.5153/sro.2694 ISSN 1360-7804.
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Abstract
This paper considers the work and labour of children living on the streets of Accra, Ghana. It does so in two distinctive ways. First, it considers how the children's photographs of a day or two in their working lives, and the dialogues that go on in, through and around them, may contribute to the making of strong sociological arguments about children's work. In so doing, this paper elaborates the connections between visual sociology and realist traditions of photography, and argues that photographs can contribute distinctive and novel sources of insight into working children's lives and a powerful, humanising media of dissemination. Second, these arguments are then deployed to examine street children's experiences of work. Conceptualised in terms of its 'flatness', the paper explores the informal means of regulation through which the children are locked into types of working that prove difficult to escape.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sociological Research Online | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1360-7804 | ||||
Official Date: | May 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 17 | ||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||
DOI: | 10.5153/sro.2694 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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