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Young and Free - [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia (Paperback)
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Young and Free - [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia (Paperback)
Series: Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia
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Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day
national obsession with childhood and a colonial past with which
Australia as a nation has not adequately come to terms, Young and
Free draws on philosophy, literature, film and testimony. The
result is a demonstration of how anxiety about childhood has become
a screen for more fundamental and intractable issues that vex
Australian social and political life. Joanne Faulkner argues that
by interpreting these anxieties in their relation to
settler-colonial Australia's unresolved conflict with Aboriginal
people, new ways of conceiving of Australian community may be
opened. The book engages with philosophical and literary
characterizations of childhood, from Locke and Rousseau, to Freud,
Bergson, Benjamin Agamben, Lacan, Ranciere and Halbwachs. The
author's psychoanalytic approach is supplemented by an engagement
with contemporary political philosophy that informs Faulkner's
critique of the concepts of the subject, sovereignty and knowledge,
resulting in a speculative postcolonial model of the subject. Cover
artist credit: Lyndsay Bird Mpetyane Artwork title: Ahakeye (Bush
Plum)
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