Kevin Ryan

Refiguring childhood

Encounters with biosocial power

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Produktbeschreibung

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 book will appeal to researchers and students interested in taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of childhood and power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781526148612
• ISBN-10: 1526148617
• Artikelnr.: 59952912

Autorenporträt

Kevin Ryan is Lecturer in Political Theory at the National University of Ireland Galway

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: biosocial power and normative fictions 2 Governing the
future: childhood between the prior to and the not yet 3 The playground as
biosocial technology 4 The right to play and the freedom to pay 5
Empowering the young citizen 6 Childhood as a national asset: the medical
and moral framing of 'health' 7 Disadvantaged childhoods and the
neuroliberal fix 8 Casting the subject of enterprise: children as
'architects of their futures' 9 Refiguring childhood Index