Precarities of 21st Century Childhoods - Critical Explorations of Time(s), Place(s), and Identities

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores internal and external precarities in the lives of children. The goal of the book is to illuminate, promote, and help situate subjectivities that are often blotted out for both the child and society.

List of contents

List of Figures
Foreword
Annie G. Rogers
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Meditations on Precarity in Childhood
Michael O'Loughlin, Carol Owens & Louis Rothschild
Part I: Times
Chapter 1. Found Objects Of/As Re-Membering Through the Lens of Child as Method
Erica Burman
Chapter 2. "School Is a Time-out in My Tough Life!" Use of Pause, Bridge and Intermittence as Resources for Student Development in School
Ana Archangelo, Fábio Camargo Bandeira Villela, & Rosiane Cristina dos Santos
Chapter 3. Making Space for the Unfathomable: Liminality in Inner City Schools
Aileen Schloerb
Chapter 4. Psychoanalyzing "From Both Sides Now": At the Extremities of Adolescence - "The Tweenies" and "The Twenties" as New Geo-Psychical Positions
Carol Owens & Jamieson Webster
Chapter 5. Childhood and Adolescence: The Familiar Strangeness of Virtuality
Liora Stavchansky
Part II: Places
Chapter 6. "I Love You More": Making Childing Visible. Children's Emotional Labor in Affluent Libidinal Economies
Anne-Marie Cummins

About the author

Carol Owens is a psychoanalyst and Lacanian scholar in Dublin, Ireland.Louis Rothschild is a clinical psychologist in Baltimore County, Maryland.Carol Owens is a psychoanalyst and Lacanian scholar in Dublin, Ireland.Louis Rothschild is a clinical psychologist in Baltimore County, Maryland.Jana Harmon is teaching fellow for the C.S. Lewis Institute of Atlanta and a former adjunct professor in Cultural Apologetics at Biola University.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Owens O''''loughlin
• Assisted by: Michael O'Loughlin (Editor), Carol Owens (Editor), Owens Carol (Editor), Louis Rothschild (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9781666907773
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-777-3
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Theoretical Explorations and Practices inClinical, Educational, Social, and Cultural Settings; Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Theoretical Explorations and Practices in Clinical, Educational, Social, and Cultural Settings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child, developmental & lifespan psychology, Clinical psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Age groups: children, Psychoanalytical & Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis