Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial Power
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial Power
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Kevin Ryan
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Series | Social and Political Power |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:208 | Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9781526148612
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Classifications | Dewey:305.23 |
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Audience | Tertiary Education (US: College) | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
9 black & white figures; 1 table
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Manchester University Press
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Imprint |
Manchester University Press
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Publication Date |
27 October 2020 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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 Biography
Kevin Ryan is a Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland in Galway -- .
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