Child Migration and Biopolitics

Child Migration and Biopolitics
Author: Beatrice Scutaru
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429756542

This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also investigates children’s experiences, views, priorities and expectations and their roles as active agents in their own migration. Using a great variety of methodologies (archival research, ethnographic observation, interviews) and sources (drawings, documents produced by governments and experts, films and press), the authors provide richly documented case studies which cover a wide geographical area within Europe, both West (Belgium, France, Germany) and East (Romania, Russia, Ukraine), South (Italy, Portugal, Turkey) and North (Sweden), enabling a deep understanding of the diversity of migrant childhoods in the European context.

Childhood and Biopolitics

Childhood and Biopolitics
Author: N. Lee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137317183

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making.

Childhood and Biopolitics

Childhood and Biopolitics
Author: N. Lee
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-11-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780230252271

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making.

Refiguring Childhood

Refiguring Childhood
Author: Kevin Ryan (Lecturer in political science)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2021
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9781526160959

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

Biopower

Biopower
Author: Vernon W. Cisney
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2015-12-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 022622676X

Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them.” With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most important shared resonances. Situating biopower as a radical alternative to traditional conceptions of power—what Foucault called “sovereign power”—the contributors examine a host of matters centered on life, the body, and the subject as a living citizen. Altogether, they pay testament to the lasting relevance of biopower in some of our most important contemporary debates on issues ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics.

Reproductive Disruptions

Reproductive Disruptions
Author: Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781845454067

Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; and miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors.

Discovering Childhood in International Relations

Discovering Childhood in International Relations
Author: J. Marshall Beier
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2020-06-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030460630

This book examines how and why, in the context of International Relations, children’s subjecthood has all too often been relegated to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations: as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all typically with the accent on the Global South. Challenging us to think critically about childhood as a technology of global governance, the authors explore alternative ways of finding children and their agency in a more central position in IR, in terms of various forms of children’s activism, children and climate change, children and security, children and resilience, and in their inevitable role in governing the future. Focusing on the problems, pitfalls, promises, and prospects of addressing children and childhoods in International Relations, this book places children more squarely in the purview of political subjecthood and hence more centrally in IR.

Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding

Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
Author: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108429874

Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children's power to interrupt it.

The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood

The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood
Author: Hannah Dyer
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2019-11-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1978804016

2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. Dyer suggests that childhood’s cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history, nation building, homophobia, and related violence. Drawing from queer and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, and cultural studies, this book helps to explain how some theories of childhood can hurt children. Dyer’s analysis moves between diverse sites and scales, including photographs and an art installation, children’s drawings after experiencing war in Gaza, a novel about gay love and childhood trauma, and debates in sex-education. In the cultural formations of art, she finds new theories of childhood that attend to the knowledge, trauma, fortitude and experience that children might possess. In addressing aggressions against children, ambivalences towards child protection, and the vital contributions children make to transnational politics, she seeks new and queer theories of childhood.

Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation

Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation
Author: Vassiliki Theodorou
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9633862795

Stimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War Two. For this span of fifty years, the authors explore how the national question was bound up with concerns raised about the health of children. They also investigate the various connotations of child health and maternity care in the context of liberal and authoritarian governments, as well as the wider social and cultural changes that took place in this period. Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, the authors look into the role of doctors, social thinkers and civil servants in the shaping of health policy; the impact of the medical paradigm from Western Europe; and the gradual professionalization of health care in Greece. Theodorou and Karakatsani describe an increasing intervention of the state in the medical supervision of childhood, the relationship between the philanthropic organizations and the state, as well as the impact of the national rivalries and wars on efforts to improve child health.