Competing meanings of childhood and the social construction of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean

Pasura, Dominic, Jones, Adele, Hafner, J.A., Maharaj, P.E., Nathaniel-DeCaires, K. and Johnson, E.J. (2013) Competing meanings of childhood and the social construction of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean. Childhood: A journal of global child research, 20 (2). pp. 200-214. ISSN 0907-5682

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Abstract

This article examines the dynamic interplay between competing meanings of childhood and the social construction of sexual abuse in the Caribbean. Drawing on qualitative data from a study undertaken in six Caribbean countries, the article suggests that Caribbean childhoods are neither wholly global nor local but hybrid creations of the region’s complex historical, social and cultural specificities, real or imagined. As childhood is a concept that lies at the intersection of multiple frames of reference, context-specific definitions of childhood – what it means to be a child – have a direct impact on the way in which the issue of child sexual abuse is constructed and understood.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	children, Caribbean childhoods, hybridity, child sexual abuse, social construction
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Schools:	School of Human and Health Sciences School of Human and Health Sciences > Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
Depositing User:	Graham Stone
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2012 14:07
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2016 05:24
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/15488

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