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Governing Childhood into the 21st Century M. Nadesan

Governing Childhood into the 21st Century By M. Nadesan

Governing Childhood into the 21st Century by M. Nadesan

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Neoliberal logics of government shaping childhood today produce market-based frameworks for understanding childhood risks. In this timely work, Nadesan argues that these frameworks encourage affluent parents to pursue individualized technologies of the self to reduce risks posed to their children's future success.

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Governing Childhood into the 21st Century: Biopolitical Technologies of Childhood Management and Education by M. Nadesan

Neoliberal logics of government shaping childhood today produce market-based frameworks for understanding childhood risks. In this timely work, Nadesan argues that these frameworks encourage affluent parents to pursue individualized technologies of the self to reduce risks posed to their children's future success.

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Majia Holmer Nadesan's Governing Childhood into the 21st Century examines the biopolitical risks of children by a neoliberal individualized risk management regime to reveal the new vulnerabilities and dependencies of the poor under social welfare. This is a thoughtful, carefully-argued treatise that ought to become required reading for students of social policy and education. - Michael A. Peters, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About M. Nadesan

MAJIA HOLMER NADESAN is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Biopolitics, Risk and Childhood A Genealogy of Family Life and Childhood Governance Risk, Biopolitics, and Bioeconomics Biopolitical Sorting Strategies: Comparing Social-Welfare and Neoliberal Problem-Solution Frames Biopower, Security, and Development Concluding Chapter on Children and the 21st Century: Risky Economies

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NPB9780230613218
9780230613218
0230613217
Governing Childhood into the 21st Century: Biopolitical Technologies of Childhood Management and Education by M. Nadesan
M. Nadesan
Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood
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Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2010-05-14
245
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