How modernity's futurism puts children in the front line
Jessop, Sharon (2018) How modernity's futurism puts children in the front line. Childhood, 25 (4). pp. 443-457. ISSN 1461-7013 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568218778753)
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Abstract
What conceptualisations of the child might explain the communicative and rhetorical significance of their selection as targets in acts of terror? It is argued that the child as an embodiment of modernity's enthralment to the future’s promises of progress or redemption puts them on this front line. As an alternative to modernity’s futurism, Surrealism presents us with a conceptualisation of the child that anticipates contemporary ideas of ‘queerness’. The recognition of the child’s profane attitude to the credo of modernity can be a way of resisting increasingly instrumentalized ways of thinking about children.
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Jessop, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2405-6733;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 63779 Dates: DateEvent1 November 2018Published28 June 2018Published Online13 April 2018AcceptedSubjects: Education
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > PsychologyDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 18 Apr 2018 15:57 Last modified: 04 Nov 2024 01:43 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/63779