Child As Method : Othering, Interiority and Materialism / Erica Burman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burman, Erica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology--Philosophy.

Child psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

In this vital volume, Erica Burman presents a synthesis of her work developed over the past decade. Building from her pathbreaking critiques of developmental psychology to the strategy of plural developments, this work elaborates a new approach, generated from postcolonial, feminist intersectionality and migration studies: child as method.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction and overview: child as method - othering, interiority and materialism

Part I Culturenatures of childhood: histories, legacies and possibilities

1 Child, blood, honour

2 Children and/as animals: developmental hierarchies, affinities and solidarities

3 Sentiment: gendered, generational and animal affectivities

Part II Interior Design

4 Antidevelopmentalism and/in psychoanalysis

5 Cultural-ideological contexts of new (and old) developmentalisms

6 Development and child in psychoanalysis

7 Resisting developmentalisms

Part III Landscaped worlds: materialism, child and the more-than-human

8 Reading Materialisms

9 Perec: children will be running along a white road

10 Saramago: with one arm left in Africa

11 Materialisms: neither new nor 'silly'

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Burman, Erica Child As Method

ISBN:

1-04-000303-6