Emotions and the Global Politics of Childhood

VallgÃ¥rda, Karen; Alexander, Kristine; Olsen, Stephanie

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“…They suggest that this concept is "particularly relevant in colonial and imperial encounters, in which different sets of formal and informal educators often sought to teach children particular habits of feeling, in accordance with the role envisioned for them in the future of the nation, colony, and empire." 19 This is a welcome formulation that pays attention to the power dynamics of emotional learning.…”

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Feeling through Practice: Subjectivity and Emotion in Children’s Writing

Barron¹,

Langhamer²

2016

Journal of Social History

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This article analyzes how children in 1930s' Britain narrated their everyday behavior, feelings and fantasies when asked to do so by their teachers. It is based upon a study of over one thousand essays that were written by children in 1937 and 1938, which were collected by the British social investigative organization, Mass Observation, as part of its Worktown Project. The argument is situated within the history of emotions and we interrogate the utility of recent conceptual frameworks for the better understanding of children's subjectivities. The essays show that children were able to juggle contradictory demands and expectations, learn emotional codes and match emotional style to spatial context when moving between school, home and leisure arenas. To some extent, then, children adapted and shaped their behavior to comply with specific emotional communities. However, we argue that this model offers only a partial account of children's emotional practices. In the second part of the article we suggest a move away from thinking about emotional communities or emotional styles as predominantly value-based and spatially-defined (by the school, home, streetspaces which children inhabited and might have influenced but which were conceived and built by adults) and argue instead for increased attention to be paid to the material context and, 2 particularly, the relationships that operated within and across these spaces. Ultimately, we argue, children's emotional experiences were less about "learning to feel" than feeling through practice.

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Feeling through Practice: Subjectivity and Emotion in Children’s Writing

Barron¹,

Langhamer²

2016

Journal of Social History

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“…Rørdam showed an extremely advanced perception of VD and it was not until 1988 that the special law on VD was repealed. 72 Those who defended the bill found it sensible that, in return for free treatment for anyone suffering from VD as proposed in •5, the law obliged patients to carry through their medical treatment to the end. They also agreed that, according to the same paragraph, those who infected others would be punished, 73 and they defended punishment for stating false name or address, maintaining that the name of a patient was only revealed in cases where treatment was interrupted.…”

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“…This approach was introduced in 1918 in the United Kingdom, but not until 1988 in Denmark. 91 During the long parliamentary discussions, the importance of •5 which reiterated mandatory and free treatment for all citizens as already embodied in law in 1874 was taken for granted. The new approach, combining universal free and mandatory treatment and applying coercion to all citizens, would be one of the mainstays of 'the Scandinavian Sonderweg ' in the prevention of VD.…”

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From regulationism to the ‘Scandinavian Sonderweg’: legislating to prevent venereal diseases in Denmark during the long nineteenth century

Blom

2005

Cont. Change

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In this article I discuss the dilemma between coercion and respect for civil liberties that characterized policies for the prevention of venereal diseases during the nineteenth century. Placing Danish legislation in an international perspective, the gradual change from control of prostitution to the so-called Scandinavian Sonderweg is analysed. Special emphasis is given to parliamentary discussions on the law of 1906, with a view to disentangling the survival of traditional attitudes to sexual morality from burgeoning conceptions of universal welfare policies.

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“…The impact of this work has been especially important among historians of childhood emotions, who are concerned with questions of emotional formation and development. Vallgårda, Alexander, and Olsen (2015), for example, have explored the question of emotional development on what they call the "emotional frontier"-physical spaces or places where emotional scripts and the values attached to emotional display are contested, whether subtly or with radical opposition.…”

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The developing brain as historical artifact.

Boddice¹

2019

Developmental Psychology

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This commentary critically assesses the importance and limitations of bioconstructionist research on emotional development within the discipline of psychology, broadly conceived, finding that it depends upon theories and methodologies concerning the study of culture that the humanities can provide. The established field of the history of emotions is introduced as a means of complicating bioconstruction by highlighting the contingency of the world in which emotional development takes place. Once the developing brain-body is understood to be historically specific, new questions emerge, old debates (especially about universality) are settled, and the pathway towards interdisciplinary collaboration on the question of experience opens up.

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Emotions and the Global Politics of Childhood

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Feeling through Practice: Subjectivity and Emotion in Children’s Writing

Feeling through Practice: Subjectivity and Emotion in Children’s Writing

From regulationism to the ‘Scandinavian Sonderweg’: legislating to prevent venereal diseases in Denmark during the long nineteenth century

The developing brain as historical artifact.

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