Ecuadorian Roses: Child Labor on Flower Farms
Flowers bloom and become beautiful products. The same could be said of children. In order for a child to bloom into a beautiful adult,...
Global Ideals, Local Realities
What does it mean to be a child?
What qualities, experiences, rights, and liberties do Western discourses assign to childhood as a social category?
And how have modern Latin American states, societies, and institutions reconciled these with local realities?
This space is dedicated to the exploration of the bounds of childhood: biological, legal, cultural, visual, rhetorical, and social.
The blog posts presented here are the result of our semester-based, interdisciplinary inquiry in the capstone course Child and Nation in Latin America at Miami University of Ohio. These projects culminate student expertise gathered in Latin American, Latino/a, and Caribbean Studies, a degree program housed in the department of Global and Intercultural Studies.