|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
|
Buy Now
Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity - Disciplining the Child (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,573
Discovery Miles 25 730
|
|
|
Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity - Disciplining the Child (Hardcover)
Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
This book analyzes different figurations of childhood in
contemporary culture and politics with a particular focus on
interdisciplinary methodologies of critical childhood studies. It
argues that while the figure of the child has been traditionally
located at the peripheries of academic disciplines, perhaps most
notably in history, sociology and literature, the proposed critical
discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that
children play in contemporary societies suggest that they are often
the locus of larger societal crises, collective psychic tensions,
and unspoken prohibitions and taboos. As such, this book brings
into focus the prejudices against childhood embedded in our
standard approaches to organizing knowledge, and asks: is there a
natural disciplinary home for the study of childhood? Or is this
field fundamentally interdisciplinary, peripheral or problematic to
notions of disciplinary identity? In this respect, does childhood
force innovation in thinking about disciplinarity? For instance,
how does the analysis of childhood affect how we think about
methodology? What role do understandings of childhood play in
delimiting how we conceive of our society, our future, and
ourselves? How does thinking about childhood affect how we think
about culture, history, and politics? This book brings together
researchers working broadly in critical child studies, but from
various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
(including philosophy, literary studies, sociology, cultural
studies and history), in order to stage a conversation between
these diverse perspectives on the disciplinary or
(interdisciplinary) character of 'the child' as an object of
research. Such conversation builds on the assumption that
childhood, far from being marginal, is a topic that is hidden in
plain sight. That is to say, while the child is always a presence
in culture, history, literature and philosophy-and is often even a
highly charged figure within those fields-its operation and effects
are rarely theoretically scrutinized, but rather are more likely
drawn upon, surreptitiously, for another purpose.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
