Childhood And Biopolitics

Author : N. Lee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137317183
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Biopolitics written by N. Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making.

Author : Beatrice Scutaru
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429756542
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Migration and Biopolitics written by Beatrice Scutaru and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also investigates children’s experiences, views, priorities and expectations and their roles as active agents in their own migration. Using a great variety of methodologies (archival research, ethnographic observation, interviews) and sources (drawings, documents produced by governments and experts, films and press), the authors provide richly documented case studies which cover a wide geographical area within Europe, both West (Belgium, France, Germany) and East (Romania, Russia, Ukraine), South (Italy, Portugal, Turkey) and North (Sweden), enabling a deep understanding of the diversity of migrant childhoods in the European context.

Author : N. Lee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137317183
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Biopolitics written by N. Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making.

Author : M. Nadesan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230106498
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Childhood into the 21st Century written by M. Nadesan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberal logics of government shaping childhood today produce market-based frameworks for understanding childhood risks. In this timely work, Nadesan argues that these frameworks encourage affluent parents to pursue individualized technologies of the self to reduce risks posed to their children's future success.

Author : Kevin Ryan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526148609
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refiguring childhood written by Kevin Ryan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood, thereby bridging being and becoming while also shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. Taking up a critical perspective that is attentive to the contingency of childhoods – the ways in which particular childhoods are constituted and configured – this book offers a transversal genealogy that moves between past and present while also crossing a series of discourses and practices framed by children’s rights (the right to play), citizenship, health, disadvantage, and entrepreneurship education. The overarching analysis converges on contemporary neo-liberal enterprise culture, which is approached as a conjuncture that helps to explain, and also to trouble, the growing emphasis on the agency and rights of children. It is against the backdrop of this problematic that the book makes its case for refiguring childhood, focusing on the how, where and when of biosocial power.

Author : J. Marshall Beier
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030460630
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering Childhood in International Relations written by J. Marshall Beier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how and why, in the context of International Relations, children’s subjecthood has all too often been relegated to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations: as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all typically with the accent on the Global South. Challenging us to think critically about childhood as a technology of global governance, the authors explore alternative ways of finding children and their agency in a more central position in IR, in terms of various forms of children’s activism, children and climate change, children and security, children and resilience, and in their inevitable role in governing the future. Focusing on the problems, pitfalls, promises, and prospects of addressing children and childhoods in International Relations, this book places children more squarely in the purview of political subjecthood and hence more centrally in IR.

Author : Daniel Thomas Cook
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1529721954
Total Pages : 4001 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies written by Daniel Thomas Cook and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 4001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood. Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide range of approaches, fields and understandings that have been brought to bear on the ever-transforming problem of the "child" over the last four decades This four-volume encyclopedia covers a wide range of themes and topics, including: Social Constructions of Childhood Children’s Rights Politics/Representations/Geographies Child-specific Research Methods Histories of Childhood/Transnational Childhoods Sociology/Anthropology of Childhood Theories and Theorists Key Concepts This interdisciplinary encyclopedia will be of interest to students and researchers in: Childhood Studies Sociology/Anthropology Psychology/Education Social Welfare Cultural Studies/Gender Studies/Disabilty Studies

Author : Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845454067
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reproductive Disruptions written by Marcia C. Inhorn and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; and miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors.

Author : Spyros Spyrou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350019232
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Childhood Studies written by Spyros Spyrou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining Childhood Studies incites, and provides a forum for, dialogue and debate about the direction and impetus for critical and global approaches to social-cultural studies of children and their childhoods. Set against the backdrop of a quarter century of research and theorising arising out of the “new” social studies of childhood, each of the 13 original contributions strives to extend the conceptual reach and relevance of the work being undertaken in the dynamic and expanding field of childhood studies in the 21st century. Internationally renowned contributors engage with contemporary scholarship from both the global north and south to address questions of power, inequity, reflexivity, subjectivities and representation from poststructuralist, posthumanist, postcolonial, feminist, queer studies and political economy perspectives. In so doing, the book provides a deconstructive and reconstructive dialogue, offering a renewed agenda for future scholarship. The book also moves the insights of childhood studies beyond the boundaries of this field, helping to mainstream insights about children's everyday lives from this burgeoning area of study and avoid the dangers of marginalizing both children and scholarship about childhood. This carefully curated collection extends beyond critiques of specified research arenas, traditions, concepts or approaches to serve as a bridge in the transformation of childhood studies at this important juncture in its history.

Author : Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108429874
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding written by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children's power to interrupt it.