| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Social and political power
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Social and political power.
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| Contents |
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' |
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Refiguring childhood -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Children -- Social conditions.
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Children -- Social conditions. |
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Power (Social sciences)
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Children. |
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Children. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781526148605 |
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Print version: 1526148617 9781526148612 (OCoLC)1145318410 |
| ISBN |
9781526148605 (electronic book) |
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1526148609 (electronic book) |
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9781526148629 (electronic book) |
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1526148625 (electronic book) |
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1526148617 |
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9781526148612 |
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