Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial Power
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial Power
By (Author) Kevin Ryan
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
9th November 2020
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social theory
Sociology: family and relationships
Cultural studies
305.23
Physical Properties
Hardback
208
Width 156mm, Height 234mm, Spine 13mm
467g
Description
Refiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which demarcates a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Attentive to the contingency of childhood - the ways in which particular childhoods are constituted and configured - the method used in the book is a transversal genea
Author Bio
Kevin Ryan is a Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland in Galway
