How does developmental psychology connect with (what used to be
called) the developing world? What do cultural representations
indicate about the contemporary politics of childhood? How is
concern about child sexual exploitation linked to wider
securitization anxieties? In other words: what is the political
economy of childhood, and how is this affectively organized? This
new edition of Developments: Child, Image, Nation, fully updated,
is a key conceptual intervention and resource, reflecting further
on the contexts and frameworks that tie children to national and
international agendas. A companion volume to Burman's
Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (third edition, 2017) this
volume helps explain why questions around children and childhood,
including their safety, welfare, their interests, abilities,
sexualities and their violence, have so preoccupied the late
twentieth and twenty-first centuries, showing how the frames for
these concerns have extended beyond their Euro-US contexts of
origination. In this completely revised edition, Burman explores
changing debates and contexts, offering resources for interpreting
continuities and shifts in the complex terrain connecting children
and development. Through reflection on an increasingly globalised,
marketised world, that prolongs previous colonial and gendered
dynamics in new and even more insidious ways, Developments analyses
the conceptual paradigms shaping how we think about and work with
children, and recommends strategies for changing them. Drawing in
particular on feminist and post-development literatures, as well as
original and detailed engagement with social theory, it illustrates
how and why reconceptualising notions of individual and human
development, including those informing models of children's rights
and interests, is needed to foster more just and equitable forms of
professional practice with children and their families. Burman
offers an important contribution to a set of urgent debates
engaging theory and method, policy and practice across all the
disciplines that work with, or lay claim to, children's interests.
A persuasive set of arguments about childhood, culture and
professional practice, Developments is an invaluable resource to
teachers and students in psychology, childhood studies, and
education as well as researchers in gender studies.
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