Precarities of 21st Century Childhoods: Critical Explorations of Time(s), Place(s), and Identities (Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Theoretical ... Educational, Social, and Cultural Settings)

This book locates internally focused, critical perspectives regarding the social, political, emotional, and mental growth of children. Through the radical openness afforded by psychoanalytic and related frameworks, this volume illuminates, promotes, and helps situate subjectivities that are often blotted out for both the child and society. The overall emphasis is on motifs of lostness and foundness, in terms of the geographies of the psycho-social, and how such motifs govern and regulate what have come to count as the normative indexes of childhood as well as how they exclude other real childhoods. Cover Contents List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Times Found Objects of/as Re-Membering Through the Lens of Child as Method‌‌ “School Is a Time-Out in My Tough Life!” Making Space for the Unfathomable Psychoanalyzing “From Both Sides Now” Childhood and Adolescence Places “I Love You More” The Precarity of Children’s Mental Wellness in Aotearoa New Zealand‌‌ Storying States of Nowhere-Ness in Children and Adolescents‌‌ Inconspicuous Precarity Identities The Weaponization of Childhood in Mussolini’s Ethiopian Laboratory and Its Revenants Necrophobia as a Nihilistic Preoccupation in Paternal‌‌‌ Fantasies of Maturation Gone Awry Re-Finding Lost Boys Fractional Distillation Negotiating Agency in the Formation of Subjectivity Index About the Contributors "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"-- Provided by publisher