| Preface | |
| Introduction: Children and the Politics of Culture in "Late Capitalism" | |
| Pt. 1 | Children and Childhoods at Risk in the "New World Order" | |
| Ch. 1 | The Child as Laborer and Consumer: The Disappearance of Childhood in Contemporary Japan | 51 |
| Ch. 2 | Have You Seen Me? Recovering the Inner Child in Late Twentieth-Century America | 79 |
| Ch. 3 | Children's Rights in a Free-Market Culture | 105 |
| Pt. 2 | Children, Cultural Identity, and the State | |
| Ch. 4 | Children in the Examination War in South Korea: A Cultural Analysis | 141 |
| Ch. 5 | Children's Stories and the State in New Order Indonesia | 169 |
| Ch. 6 | Children, Population Policy, and the State in Singapore | 184 |
| Ch. 7 | Youth and the Politics of Culture in South Africa | 218 |
| Pt. 3 | Children and the Politics of Minority Cultural Identity | |
| Ch. 8 | "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian": The Politics of Identity among British-Sikh Teenagers | 243 |
| Ch. 9 | Second-Generation Noncitizens: Children of the Turkish Migrant Diaspora in Germany | 265 |
| Ch. 10 | Children, Politics, and Culture: The Case of Brazilian Indians | 282 |
| Ch. 11 | The "Cultural Fallout" of Chernobyl Radiation in Norwegian Sami Regions: Implications for Children | 292 |
| Pt. 4 | The Recovery and Reconstruction of Childhood? | |
| Ch. 12 | Recovering Childhood: Children in South African National Reconstruction | 321 |
| Appendix: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child | 335 |
| About the Contributors | 353 |
| Index | 357 |
