Governing Childhood into the 21st Century: Biopolitical Technologies of Childhood Management and Education (Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood)

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. In Contrast, Neoliberal Market Frameworks Regard Lower-income Children As Risky, And Therefore Deploy Targeted Disciplines Aimed At Reducing Economic And Biopolitical Risks To The Nation. Risks Posed By Poor Children Abroad Derive From, And Legitimize, A New U.s. Security Discourse That Governs Primarily Through Strategic Containment And Normalization, Yet Doesn't Hesitate To Employ Repression. The Current Global Economic Crisis Points To The Limits And Paradoxes Of The Neoliberal Logics Governing Populations, Presenting Future Risks For Twenty-first Century Childhood.--publisher's Website. 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. By Majia Holmer Nadesan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [205]-239) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 1 Introduction to Biopolitics, Risk, and Childhood......Page 10 2 A Genealogy of Family Life and Childhood Governance......Page 28 3 Risk, Biopolitics, and Bioeconomics......Page 72 4 Biopolitical Sorting: Comparing Neoliberal and Social Welfare Problem-Solution Frames......Page 120 5 Biopower, Security, and Development......Page 162 6 Children and the Twenty-First Century: Risky Economies......Page 188 Notes......Page 210 Works Cited......Page 214 C......Page 250 H......Page 251 N......Page 252 T......Page 253 Z......Page 254