The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century
This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized. The study of nineteenth-century biopolitics offers a theoretical framework that promises to increase our understanding of how modern democracies manage their...
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| description | This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized. The study of nineteenth-century biopolitics offers a theoretical framework that promises to increase our understanding of how modern democracies manage their subjects. Recent scholarship has invigorated interrogations into forms of state governance that operate at the level of population, a biological phenomenon defined as a group of individuals linked by racialized fictions of biological commonality. This collection seeks to recognize and position critical childhood studies as essential to these interrogations. The essays theorize the role of representations of children and childhood as tools of biopolitical governance in America in the long nineteenth century. They variously explore how the interrelated and overlapping qualities integral to our understandings of the child and childhood are readily deployed by biopolitical power. The collection is organized into three sections that illustrate how these qualities enable the sorting of human beings into populations targeted for reform, exploitation, and disposal. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1585232025-07-04T05:05:11Z The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century Hodgson, Lucia Giffen, Allison Children's Literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSY Children’s and teenage literature studies: general This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized. The study of nineteenth-century biopolitics offers a theoretical framework that promises to increase our understanding of how modern democracies manage their subjects. Recent scholarship has invigorated interrogations into forms of state governance that operate at the level of population, a biological phenomenon defined as a group of individuals linked by racialized fictions of biological commonality. This collection seeks to recognize and position critical childhood studies as essential to these interrogations. The essays theorize the role of representations of children and childhood as tools of biopolitical governance in America in the long nineteenth century. They variously explore how the interrelated and overlapping qualities integral to our understandings of the child and childhood are readily deployed by biopolitical power. The collection is organized into three sections that illustrate how these qualities enable the sorting of human beings into populations targeted for reform, exploitation, and disposal. 2025-04-17T04:09:06Z 2025-04-17T04:09:06Z 2025-04-16T12:30:11Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100881 9781032563527 9781032563541 9781003435068 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/158523 eng Children's Literature and Culture open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003435068 10.4324/9781003435068 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Chapter 3 The Biopolitics of Sexual Consent in Lydia Maria Child’s Reform Fiction Chapter Introduction Chapter 6 Arrested Development Chapter 1 Jacob Riis, Luther Burbank, and the Training of the American Child 9781032563527 9781032563541 9781003435068 Routledge open access |
| spellingShingle | Children's Literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSY Children’s and teenage literature studies: general The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century |
| title | The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century |
| title_full | The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century |
| title_fullStr | The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century |
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| title_short | The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century |
| title_sort | biopolitics of childhood in the long american 19th century |
| topic | Children's Literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSY Children’s and teenage literature studies: general |
| topic_facet | Children's Literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSY Children’s and teenage literature studies: general |
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