Performing Child(hood)

Barron, I ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8596-5543 and Jones, L (2014) Performing Child(hood). Children and Society, 28 (4). pp. 257-268. ISSN 0951-0605

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2012.00453.x

Abstract

Taking an example of play as our point of departure, we consider what it means to be a child and to perform (Butler, Feminism/Postmodernism, 1990; Gender, 1990. Routledge: New York) childhood. By drawing on poststructuralist accounts of subjectivity, language and meaning (Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1979. Penguin: Harmondsworth; Derrida, Dissemination, 1974. Athlone: London), we argue that despite powerful discourses that seek to contain childhood, children manage to exceed or interrupt sites of containment. We then go on to suggest that if children themselves are moving beyond some of the discourses in which they are enwrapped, how might we seek to further destabilise what ‘becoming’ (Deleuze,1990: http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze3.htm) child might mean and what might be the implications for our practice(s) with children.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2013 10:34
Publisher:	Wiley
Additional Information:	This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Barron, I. and Jones, L. (2014), Performing Child(hood). Child Soc, 28: 257-268, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2012.00453.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
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Subject terms:	Childhood, Children's culture, Ethnicity, Gender, Social Sciences, Social Work, childhood, children's culture, ethnicity, gender, childhood, children's culture, ethnicity, gender, 1605 Policy and Administration, 1607 Social Work, 1608 Sociology, Social Work
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/281592
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2012.00453.x
ISSN	0951-0605
e-ISSN	1099-0860

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