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Neoliberal Logics Of Government Shaping Childhood Today Produce Market-based Frameworks For Understanding Childhood Risks. In This Timely Work, Nadesan Argues That These Frameworks Encourage Affluent Parents To Pursue Individualized Technologies Of The Self To Reduce Risks Posed To Their Children's Future Success. In Contrast, Neoliberal Market Frameworks Regard Lower-income Children As Risky, And Therefore Deploy Targeted Disciplines Aimed At Reducing Economic And Biopolitical Risks To The Nation. Risks Posed By Poor Children Abroad Derive From, And Legitimize, A New U.s. Security Discourse That Governs Primarily Through Strategic Containment And Normalization, Yet Doesn't Hesitate To Employ Repression. The Current Global Economic Crisis Points To The Limits And Paradoxes Of The Neoliberal Logics Governing Populations, Presenting Future Risks For Twenty-first Century Childhood.--publisher's Website. Introduction To Biopolitics, Risk And Childhood -- A Genealogy Of Family Life And Childhood Governance -- Risk, Biopolitics, And Bioeconomics -- Biopolitical Sorting Strategies: Comparing Social-welfare And Neoliberal Problem-solution Frames -- Biopower, Security, And Development -- Co

Author

Majia Holmer Nadesan

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349377725

Subjects

Education, Philosophy, Science