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Refiguring childhood : Encounters with biosocial power /
Refiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present,...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Series: | Social and political power.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.