Childhood and Nation Interdisciplinary Engagements

by Millei, Zsuzsa; Imre, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781137477828
• ISBN10: 1137477822
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Zsuzsanna Millei is Research Fellow at Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG), University of Tampere, Finland and Senior Lecturer at The University of Newcastle, Australia.
 
Robert Imre is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at The University of Newcastle, Australia.

Table of Contents

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
PART II: TRANS/NATIONAL SUBJECT FORMATION
7. National Symbols and Practices in the Everyday of Irish Education; Marguerita Magennis
8. Palestinian Children Forging National Identity through the Social and Spatial Practices of Territoriality; Bree Akesson
9. Constructing Narratives of Political Identities: Young People in the 'New' European States; Alistair Ross
10. 'Let's Move, Let's not Remain Stagnant': Nationalism, Masculinism and School-Based Education in Mozambique; Esther Miedema
11. Polish Children in Norway: Between National Discourses of Belonging and Everyday Experiences of Life Abroad; Paula Pustulka, Magdalena Slusarczyk, and Stella Strzemecka
12. Educating 'Supermen' and 'Superwomen': Global Citizenship Education; Tatjana Zimenkova