The Government of Childhood [electronic resource] : Discourse, Power and Subjectivity /
Smith, K.author.
Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present. The book deals with three key time-periods and examines shifts in the conceptualization and regulation of childhood and child-rearing.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Children, parents and power; Overview of book; 1 Conceptualising Governmentality; Governmentality; The 'governmentalization of the state'; Liberal governmentality: Governing the social; Reconfiguring social government; Conclusion; 2 Subjects of Government; Power, knowledge and subjectivity; Subjects of freedom; Authoritarian governmentality; Governing childhood; Conclusion; 3 Disciplining Childhood; The conceptual building blocks of early modern childhood; Humanism and the rise of the malleable child; Childhood and religious reform
Hobbes and the new scienceThe government of children and families in earlymodern states; Schools and schooling; Conclusion; 4 The Gentle Way in Child Government; Rousseau and Locke; Romanticism; Utilitarianism; Better childhoods, better children, better citizens; Putting children in their place; Governing child welfare; Conclusion; 5 Governing the Responsible Child; Re-conceptualising childhood; From protection to participation; Agentive childhood; The Athenian child; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present. The book deals with three key time-periods and examines shifts in the conceptualization and regulation of childhood and child-rearing.
Social policy.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Educational sociology.
Social history.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Social groups.
Family.
Children, Youth and Family Policy.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Sociology of Education.
Social History.
Social Theory.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.