Refiguring childhood : encounters with biosocial power / Kevin Ryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryan, Kevin (Lecturer in political science), author.

Series:

Social and political power.

Social and political power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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 and shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. The text will appeal to researchers and students interested in taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of childhood and power.

Contents:

Introduction : biosocial power and normative fictions

Governing the future : childhood between the prior to and the not yet

The playground as biosocial technology

The right to play and the freedom to pay

Empowering the young citizen

Childhood as a national asset : the medical and moral framing of 'health'

Disadvantaged childhoods and the neuroliberal fix

Casting the subject of enterprise : children as 'architects of their futures'

Refiguring childhood.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-180) and index.

Description based on e-Publication, viewed on December 16, 2020.

ISBN:

9781526160959

1526160951

9781526148605

1526148609

9781526148612

1526148617

OCLC:

1224157305