Review
Book Review: Cambodia. Life in a Cambodian orphanage: A childhood journey for new opportunities By Kathie Carpenter New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Pp. 207. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol.53(4), pp.811-814
2023
Abstract
The dominant Western narrative casts orphanages as inevitably and inherently harmful to children based on adultist Western perceptions and perspectives of childhood, while the term orphan has become synonymous with vulnerability and innocence. Kathie Carpenter's research disrupts this dominant narrative by listening to the children themselves, the experts, those who have lived in an orphanage complex. These former orphanage residents provided a rich and nuanced account of growing up in what they referred to as a safe and caring environment, as they reflected on how their lives were enhanced by this particular experience of childhood.
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- Title
- Book Review: Cambodia. Life in a Cambodian orphanage: A childhood journey for new opportunities By Kathie Carpenter New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Pp. 207. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index
- Authors
- Amanda Miller (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Publication details
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol.53(4), pp.811-814
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0022463422000686
- ISSN
- 1474-0680
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99698697402621
- Output Type
- Review
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