Child as Method: Othering, Interiority and Materialism - Softcover

Burman, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032255722 ISBN 13: 9781032255729

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

In this vital volume, Erica Burman presents a synthesis of her work developed over the past decade. Building from her path-breaking critiques of developmental psychology to the strategy of plural developments, her more recent work elaborates a new approach, generated from postcolonial, feminist intersectionality and migration studies: Child as method.

This text amplifies the Child as method’s success as a distinct way of exploring the alignments of current ‘new materialist’ or posthumanist approaches with supposedly ‘older’ materialist analyses, including Marxist theory, feminist theory, anticolonial approaches and psychoanalytic perspectives. It assumes that childhood is a material practice, both undertaken by children themselves and by those who live and work with them, as well as by those who define politics, policies and popular culture about children. Key chapters interrogate historical legacies arising from the Eurocentric origins of what are now globalised models of modern childhood and evaluate the problems posed by the structure of emotion and affectivity that surrounds children and childhood – by tracing its evolution and indicating some of its unhelpful current effects in recentring white/Majority world subjectivities

Child as Method provides key contributions to a range of disciplines and debates including developmental psychology, critical childhood studies, education studies, legal studies, health and social care and literature.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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About the Author

Erica Burman is a critical psychologist, educationalist, antidevelopmentalist and feminist postcolonial scholar and activist. Her work spans mental health contexts and training as well as critical childhood studies. She has written extensively on development (in its multiple senses) and contributes to childhood and educational studies by connecting social theory with educational and psychological practices.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032255722
• ISBN 13: 9781032255729
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322