ABSTRACT
The contributors and editors of this volume begin from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and childhood at the end of the 20th century. Their essays consider what techniques and technologies are used to govern the child, what role the family plays, what is global and what is culturally specific in the changes, and how the subject is constructed and construed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 5|34 pages
Administering Freedom: A History of the Present
Rescuing the Parent to Rescue the Child for Society
chapter 6|24 pages
Educating Flexible Souls
The Construction of Subjectivity through Developmentality and Interaction
chapter 7|29 pages
Bringing the Gods and the Angels Back?
A Modern Pedagogical Saga about Excess in Moderation
