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Refiguring childhood : encounters with biosocial power /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan, Kevin (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester [UK] : Manchester University Press, [2020]
Series:Social and political power.
Subjects:
Children > Social conditions.
Power (Social sciences)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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'
  • Refiguring childhood
  • References
  • Index