Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial Power

by Kevin Ryan

Refiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood, thereby bridging being and becoming while also shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526148617
• ISBN13: 9781526148612
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"