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Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor MAJIA HOLMER NADESAN is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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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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"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
