Childhood and Biopolitics - Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures (Hardcover)

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements in lifespan and lifestyle? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of current attempts to shape the world. In this book, Nicholas Lee argues that, if it can adapt, the discipline of childhood studies can make a critical and creative contribution to future making.
"Childhood and Biopolitics" develops new ways to navigate and analyse childhood as a biopolitical phenomenon that is intimately connected with today's major political and scientific challenges. It addresses cognitive enhancement and mental capital, preventable disease and vaccine development, epidemics, public order, climate change and sustainability. It argues that children should be seen as a reservoir of the creative human ability to 'reframe' and so to respond to challenges and opportunities.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Childhood and Youth
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	N. Lee
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	181
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-25227-1
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
LSN:	0-230-25227-3
Barcode:	9780230252271

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