{"product_id":"refiguring-childhood-encounters-with-biosocial-power-9781526148612","title":"Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefiguring childhood\u003c\/i\u003e stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood, thereby bridging being and becoming while also shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking up a critical perspective that is attentive to the contingency of childhoods – the ways in which particular childhoods are constituted and configured – this book offers a transversal genealogy that moves between past and present while also crossing a series of discourses and practices framed by children’s rights (the right to play), citizenship, health, disadvantage, and entrepreneurship education. The overarching analysis converges on contemporary neo-liberal enterprise culture, which is approached as a conjuncture that helps to explain, and also to trouble, the growing emphasis on the agency and rights of children. It is against the backdrop of this problematic that the book makes its case for refiguring childhood, focusing on the \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ewhere \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ewhen \u003c\/i\u003eof biosocial power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: biosocial power and normative fictions\u003cbr\u003e2 Governing the future: childhood between the \u003ci\u003eprior to \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003enot yet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 The playground as biosocial technology\u003cbr\u003e4 The right to play and the freedom to pay\u003cbr\u003e5 Empowering the young citizen\u003cbr\u003e6 Childhood as a national asset: the medical and moral framing of ‘health’\u003cbr\u003e7 Disadvantaged childhoods and the neuroliberal fix\u003cbr\u003e8 Casting the subject of enterprise: children as ‘architects of their futures’\u003cbr\u003e9 Refiguring childhood\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041013530967,"sku":"9781526148612","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526148612.jpg?v=1750948595","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/refiguring-childhood-encounters-with-biosocial-power-9781526148612","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}