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OverviewWinner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award presented by Division B (Curriculum Studies) of the American Educational Research Association Winner of the 2019 Critics' Choice Book Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association Childhood beyond Pathology offers an account of the ways that psychoanalytic concepts can inform ongoing challenges of representing development, belonging, and relationality, with a focus on debates over how children should be treated, what they might know, and who they should become. Drawing from fiction, clinical studies, and courtroom and classroom contexts, Lisa Farley explores a series of five conceptual figures—the replacement child, the neurodiverse child, the counterfeit child, the child heir of historical trauma, and the gender divergent child—with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity. The book reveals the emotional situations, social tensions, and political issues that shape the meaning of childhood, and focuses on what happens when a child departs from normative scripts of development. Through thought-provoking analysis, Farley develops themes that include childhood loss, the myth of innocence, the problem of diagnosis, the subject of racial hatred, the meaning of a good fight, and gender embodiment. She draws extensively on psychoanalytic concepts to show how the fantasy of the child advancing through lockstep stages fails to account for the child as symbolic of the conflicts of entering into the social world. Childhood beyond Pathology suggests we reconsider developmental understandings of childhood by honoring the elusive qualities of inner life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa FarleyPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438470917ISBN 10: 1438470916 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 01 September 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Why Study the Child after a “Century of the Child”? 1. The Replacement Child: An Allegory of Loss for Scholars and Students of Childhood 2. Psychoanalysis on the Spectrum: From Psychosis to the Child’s Rightful Claim of Potency and Privacy 3. The Counterfeit Child: On Race, Gender, and Murder in Junior High 4. Debating Trauma Texts in the Wake of the Residential School: Beyond Damage and Innocence 5. Transitional Phenomena and (Trans)gender Childhood Postscript: The Child in Mind: Four Affective Challenges to the Fields of Childhood Studies, Education, and Psychology Notes References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationLisa Farley is Associate Professor of Education at York University in Toronto, Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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