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English
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In this dissertation I show how Peruvian girls who work and are organized as members of MANTHOC in Lima and Cajamarca are well equipped to navigate power structures. I do this by first talking about how girls in MANTHOC, or MANTHOCas, define their identity as dignified workers and how this classification teaches them how to traverse often negative conceptualizations of them. I then talk about how in becoming part of this organization, girls have a space where they can learn how to participate politically inside and outside their child-led social movement. By transposing their worker identity into different ways that they identify, more experienced girls begin to embody the movement’s values and as such maintain its purpose. In doing so, these girls are capable of gaining access to a differential mode of consciousness they can use to navigate adult power. As this process is always shifting and evolving, not one girl’s lived experience is the same as another’s, but they are able to use Sandoval’s five technologies of resistance to create positive change locally and globally.
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Topic
Child labor -- Peru -- Social conditions
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Childhood Studies
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