Childhood and Nation Interdisciplinary Engagements [Hardcover]

Childhood and Nation explores the historical and manifold current relations between nation and childhood. Millei and Imre bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address many pressing questions of today. The analytical incisions created by nation and childhood bring answers to the following questions: How do national agendas related to economic, social and political problems exploit children and tighten their regulation? How do representations of nations take advantage of ideals of childhood? Why do nations look to children and search for those characteristics of childhood that help them solve environmental and humanitarian issues? The book offers a fresh look at the theme of nation and childhood by offering multiple methodologies from fields including education, policy studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, literature, and psychology.

This volume explores the manifold relations between nation and childhood. Millei and Imre bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to address pressing questions about the regulation of childhood through national agendas, ideals of childhood and their role in national projects, and accounts of children's life as national subjects.

1. Introduction: Childhood and Nation; Zsuzsa Millei & Robert Imre
PART I: GOVERNMENT, REPRESENTATIONS AND RESISTANCES
2. 'How Come Australians are White': Children's Voice and Adults' Silence; Prasanna Srinivasan
3. The Child as Nation: Embodying the Nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children; Lucy Hopkins
4. 'Franco's Children': Childhood Memory as National Allegory; Miaowei Weng
5. (Dis)Locating hospitality: Reader Positioning in Australian Picture Books about Asylum Seekers; Trish Lunt
6. Minor(s) Matter: Stone-throwing, Securitization and the Government of Palestinian Childhood under Israeli Military Rule; Mikko Joronen
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