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Doctoral thesis

The Children’s Work and Education in the Context of Political Activism, State Building and Foreign Aid : The Case of Gaza Strip

BP2-STS

  • Fribourg (Switzerland), [2025]

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PhD: Université de Fribourg (Suisse), 13.05.2019

The Gaza Strip
Palestine
Israel
child labour
children's work
young people
agency
generation
global South
political violence
international aid
activism
Intifada
Enfants
Travail
Education des enfants
Enfants -- Travail
Marché du travail
Militantisme
Construction nationale
Aide économique
Ethnologie
Changement social
Anthropologie
Histoire
Gaza, Bande de (Palestine)
Palestiniens, Territoires
English Résumé de la thèseThis thesis investigates the macro and micro dynamics of children’s work in the Gaza Strip, challenging prevalent discourses that reduce the phenomenon to a mere consequence of poverty or exploitation. Grounded in the New Sociology of Childhood and framing ‘generation’ as a structural category, the study conceptualises children’s work as a complex social practice through which intergenerational power relations and patriarchal structures are negotiated. Drawing on anthropological inquiry and ethnographic methods, the research analyses the shifting ideals of childhood across three distinct political eras: the First Intifada, the Oslo state-building period, and the Second Intifada. The findings demonstrate how political instability, aid dependency, and conflict have continuously reconfigured the nexus between work and education. While the First Intifada valorised political activism, the Oslo years sought to institutionalise education as a state-building tool—a project subsequently disrupted by the socio-economic upheavals of the Second Intifada. Crucially, the research elucidates that children are not passive victims but active social agents who leverage work to contest traditional adult authority and secure economic autonomy. Ultimately, this thesis critiques universalist abolitionist agendas, arguing that they fail to account for local survival strategies and the agency of young people in the Global South.
Faculty
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Language
  • English
Classification
Anthropology, ethnography
Notes
  • Bibliographie
License
CC BY
Open access status
diamond
Identifiers
Persistent URL
https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/333865
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