ISBN:
9781137312266
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (267 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in Childhood and Youth
Series Statement:
Studies in Childhood and Youth Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Government of Childhood : Discourse, Power and Subjectivity
DDC:
305.235
Keywords:
Social sciences-Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present. The book deals with three key time-periods and examines shifts in the conceptualization and regulation of childhood and child-rearing
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Children, parents and power; Overview of book; 1 Conceptualising Governmentality; Governmentality; The 'governmentalization of the state'; Liberal governmentality: Governing the social; Reconfiguring social government; Conclusion; 2 Subjects of Government; Power, knowledge and subjectivity; Subjects of freedom; Authoritarian governmentality; Governing childhood; Conclusion; 3 Disciplining Childhood; The conceptual building blocks of early modern childhood; Humanism and the rise of the malleable child; Childhood and religious reform
Description / Table of Contents:
Hobbes and the new scienceThe government of children and families in earlymodern states; Schools and schooling; Conclusion; 4 The Gentle Way in Child Government; Rousseau and Locke; Romanticism; Utilitarianism; Better childhoods, better children, better citizens; Putting children in their place; Governing child welfare; Conclusion; 5 Governing the Responsible Child; Re-conceptualising childhood; From protection to participation; Agentive childhood; The Athenian child; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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