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The social labour undertaken by children to navigate economic difference and insecurity in rural Australia is deeply classed and tied to moral tenets of their social worlds. This book has shown how children in Riverstone drew heavily on local and classed sources of moral worth in the complex and nuanced strategies they engineered to make sense of, and manage, social situations which arose through economic difference and insecurity. In the process, rural children reworked these cultural resources to make them meaningful, valuable and accountable within their own social worlds, connecting and disconnecting with others under specific social situations, and affording moments of belonging and exclusion that were viscerally contingent on a range of socialised differences and identities.
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Butler, R. (2019). Conclusion. In: Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods. Perspectives on Children and Young People, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1102-4_7
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