Developments : child, image, nation / Erica Burman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burman, Erica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 361 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

How does developmental psychology connect with the developing world? In other words: what is the political economy of childhood, and how is this affectively organized? This new edition is a key conceptual intervention and resource, reflecting further on the contexts and frameworks that tie children to national and international agendas.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements to the First Edition

Acknowledgements to the Second Edition

Introduction

Part I: Child: Children and Development: What is at Stake?

1 Dis/Placing Development

2 The Child, The Woman, and The Cyborg: (Im)Possibilities of Feminist Developmental Psychology

3 Pedagogics of Modernity: The Address to the Child as Political Object and Subject

Part II: Developing Images

4 Childhood, Sexual Abuse and Contemporary Political Subjectivities

5 Sexuality: Contested Relationships Around the Control of Desire and Action

6 Appealing and Appalling Children

Part III: International Development

7 Beyond the Baby and the Bathwater: Developmental Psychologies for Diverse Childhoods

8 Developing Differences: Gender, Childhood and Economic Development

9 The Abnormal Distribution of Development: Policies for Southern Women and Children

Part IV: What Follows Postdevelopment?

10 Rhetorics of Psychological Development: From Complicity to Resistance

11 Between Two Debts: Points of Suspension in Childhood and Economic Development

12 Between Two Deaths: Reconfiguring Metaphorics and Rhetorics of Childhood

Part V: Transnational Dynamics

13 Between Identification and Subjectification: Affective Technologies of Expertise and Temporality in the Contemporary Cultural Representation of Gendered Childhoods

14 'It Shouldn't Happen Here': Cultural and Relational Dynamics Structured Around the 'Poor Child'

15 Contingent Connections: Between German and British Childhoods - Marion Daltrop

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-16312-1