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The first collection of essays to focus on Deleuze's writing on children and childhood.
This collection gives an accessible account of the key characterisations of children and childhood made in Deleuze and Guattari's work. These concepts are then applied to concerns that have shaped the child in various disciplines and in interdisciplinary scholarship.
Bringing together established and new voices, the essays take up concepts from Deleuze and Guattari's work to question the popular idea that children are innocent adults-in-the-making caught in an Oedipal grid. Authors working in philosophy, literature, education, sociology, gender and sexuality, music and film studies consider aspects of children's lives such as time, language, affect, atmosphere, gender, sexuality and schooling, offering critical approaches to the pervasive interest in the teleology of upward growth of the child.
Markus P. J. Bohlmann is Professor of English at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada. Anna Hickey-Moody is Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
List of contents
Introduction
Markus P. J. Bohlmann and Anna Hickey-Moody
Part I: Deleuze and Children
1. Deleuze, Guattari and Partial Objects
Kenneth Surin
2. Little Hans and the Pedagogies of Heterosexuality
Anna Hickey-Moody
3. Undoing the Parent-Function: The Metaphysics and Politics of a Deleuzian Child
Ohad Zehavi
4. Beyond Surface Articulation: Alice and the Hermunculus
Helen Palmer
Part II: Children and Deleuze
5. Pathways through the Labyrinth: Deleuze's Gothic Child in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980)
Anna Powell
6. 'Just Tell Them I'm a Chipmunk': Transgender Children and the Breach in the Oedipal Gender Assemblage
Mat Fournier
7. Affective Atmospheres: Joy, Ethics and the Howl of Children and Young People's (A)Sexuality
Ian Thomas
8. Affect, Play and Becoming-Musicking
Chris Stover
9. Temporalities of Children's Literature: Chronos, Aion and Incorporeal Ageing
Jane Newland
10. Children, Deleuze and Worlding
Markus P.J. Bohlmann
11. Child, Baby, Embryo, Brain, Monster
Jon Roffe
Biographies
Index
About the author
Markus Bohlmann is Professor of English at Seneca College, Toronto. He is co-editor of Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors (McFarland, 2015) and Misfits: Children with a Twist (Lexington Books, 2017).Anna Hickey-Moody is a Professor of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Australia, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, 2017-2021. She holds visiting professor positions at Columbia University, USA, Goldsmiths College, London, and the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. From 2013 to 2016, she was the Head of the PhD in Arts and Learning and Director of the Centre for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths College. She has also held teaching and research positions at the University of Sydney, Monash, and UniSA, Australia. Anna has published a significant amount of work in Affect studies. Her recent publications include; Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Issues (2007), 'Deleuze's Children' in Educational Philosophy and Theory (2013), 'Affect as Method: Feelings, Aesthetics, and Affective Pedagogy' in Deleuze and Research Methodologies (2013) and her upcoming book Deleuze and the Pedagogy of Gender: Masculinity and Methodology (2019).
Summary
This collection applies the characterisations of children and childhood made in Deleuze and Guattari's work to concerns that have shaped our idea of the child. Bringing together established and new voices, the authorsconsider aspects of children's lives such as time, language, gender, affect, religion, atmosphere and schooling.
