In Enfants des Montagnes du Monde, an international team of mountain geographers brings forth an examination of important issues affecting children in mountain communities of every continent, devoted to the celebration of its diversity.
Fausto Sarmiento, an associate professor of geography at UGA, joined journalist Jean-Michel Asselin, Sylvie Brunel of Sorbonne, Hervé Gumuchian of Grenoble, Valeria Pototskaya of Bishkek, Pana Ramakhrishnan of New Delhi and director Bernard Debarbieux of Geneva to produce a fascinating tour of one of the world’s most imperative groups, the children of marginal mountain communities, in a book of discovery, emotion and global understanding.
Illustrated by full color pictures from renowned photographers and published in French, the team of scientists designed this book to reach a broader readership in terms of engaging communication and debate in the widest sense of Montology, easily grasped by the laymen.
Sarmiento analyzes the issue of working children recruited for guerilla tactics and childhood. Sarmiento hopes that this book will continue the effort initiated with the International Year of Mountains to make mountain studies a stronger disciplinary field.