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Refiguring childhood : encounters with biosocial power /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester [UK] :
Manchester University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Social and political power.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Series editor's foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 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
- References
- Index