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Child as Method: Othering, Interiority and Materialism by Burman, Erica is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Child as Method: Othering, Interiority and Materialism about?

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 i

Who reads Child as Method: Othering, Interiority and Materialism?

Author

Burman, Erica

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781032255729

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social_sciences