Why do we worry about children?

Faulkner, Joanne

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139010481.002

Cited by 9 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Alice is in no sense depicted as pure and, as mentioned already, she is often rude, strong-willed and has at times a bully approach to the characters in Wonderland. This in itself casts off her innocence (Faulkner, 2011: 8). The potential innocence of Alice is her lack of knowledge about how Wonderland works and how she should navigate it.…”

Section: Figuring Alicementioning

confidence: 99%

Through the looking-glass: Alice and Child Studies Multiple

Sparrman

2019

Childhood

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This is NOT an article about Alice in Wonderland. It is about the figure of Alice-the-child and an exploration of the contemporary theoretical research field of Child Studies. What if, I ask, Lewis Carroll’s Alice had been one of the sources drawn upon when forming child research theories? The idea is to explore how the fictive child character Alice in Wonderland enacts key theoretical concepts in Child Studies. Out of this exploration grows the idea of Child Studies Multiple.

show abstract

Section: Figuring Alicementioning

confidence: 99%

Through the looking-glass: Alice and Child Studies Multiple

Sparrman

2019

Childhood

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Since the turn of the twenty-first century, transnational heteroactivist discourses have increasingly centered on the best interests of the Child (Nash and Browne, 2015; Browne, Nash and Gormann-Murray, 2018; Baird, 2008; Faulkner, 2010). Much like the nation’s ‘way of life’ (Zizek, 1993: 201–202), the best interests of the Child can be identified, though only approximately, in the hegemonic myths through which the community organizes its social practice.…”

Section: The Best Interests Of the Childmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Heteronormativity largely dominates and pervades the experiences of children. For example, in addition to the example that the normative heterosexual, marital family may play to children in itself, heteronormativity ordinarily pervades children’s stories and TV shows (Faulkner, 2010) and parents’ positive reactions to children’s ‘cute’ pre-heterosexual practices such as opposite-sex rehearsals of marriage, kissing, hugging, and relationships (Robinson, 2013). Furthermore, play is gender-differentiated, as boys are socialized to take up their ‘natural’ position in the public sphere, while girls are socialized for reproductive roles in the private sphere (Taylor, 2008).…”

Section: The Best Interests Of the Childmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Affective investment in the best interests of the Child was particularly intense throughout the Australian marriage debate, as transnational discourses of the best interests of the Child were stoked locally by nationalist narratives of Anglo-Australian Childlike innocence, victimhood, and abandonment (Baird, 2008; Faulkner, 2010). In this section, I draw on the growing literature alongside illustrative examples to briefly theorize the two fantasies that dominated the same-sex marriage debate.…”

Section: Homosexuality In the Australian Marriage Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The future is queer kids: Queering the homonormative temporalities of same-sex marriage

Stewart

2019

Politics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Same-sex marriage is emblematic of a crisis of vision in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender non-binary, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) politics, according to some queer theorists. Through the concept of homonormativity, Duggan insightfully criticizes same-sex marriage politics as spatially privatizing and depoliticizing queer difference. Brown argues, however, that Duggan herself reifies homonormativity. He calls for theorists to imagine the queer potential in non-fixed spatial relations. Given Duggan and Brown’s focus on spatiality, this article approaches queer imaginations beyond homonormativity from a temporal perspective: I ask what transformational potential same-sex marriage holds to queer heteronormative and homonormative temporalities. I argue that same-sex marriage may not only queer the public/private dichotomy, but also subvert the heteronormative temporality of straight time. Straight time produces identities, spaces, and times as fixed, pre-political, and timeless, and is constructed against queer time in which identities, spaces, and times are non-fixed, political, and sociohistorically constructed. By theorizing straight/queer time as politically produced through the reproductive relation between adulthood and Childhood, I repoliticize the temporalities of homonormative and queer imaginaries and recognize children as queer citizens of a queer future. Same-sex marriage may therefore produce two previously untheorized images of queer potential: the Child queered by their parents, and the Child queered by their sexuality.

show abstract

“…While still the focus of efforts to preserve their status as non-adults – to ‘let children be children’ – they test the boundaries of the adult–child dichotomy. As Faulkner (2010: 101) observes, ‘It is because the ideal of innocence can no longer contain them that teenagers come to threaten it.’ As mentioned above, figures demonstrating that high numbers of under-10s had been stopped and searched in urban areas were widely reported in news media, yet there has been very little concern expressed about the stop and search of 11–17-year-olds. A lack of concern about older children’s vulnerability reflects the climate of fear and intolerance directed towards teenagers and punitive attitudes towards criminal behaviour among under-18s (Halsey and White, 2008; Muncie, 2014).…”

Section: Childhood Public Space and The Legitimacy Of Stop And Searchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The stop and search of minors: A ‘vital police tool’?

Flacks

2017

Criminology & Criminal Justice

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Police stop and search powers have been widely criticized for the disproportionate manner in which members of black and ethnic minority communities are targeted. However, the use of such powers on minors in England and Wales has largely escaped comment, despite good evidence that such practices are harmful and counterproductive. Whilst data on the stop and search of under-10s and even toddlers has been reasonably widely reported by the mass media, there has been little interest in the welfare of older children who are subject to such police powers. Drawing on police data, qualitative research and information obtained through Freedom of Information requests, this article considers the relationship between potentially corrosive stop and search practices, young people's use of public space and the question of vulnerability. It is concluded that policy and practice around the use of such powers should be amended to take account of the specific needs of individuals under the age of 18, and that children's welfare should be a central consideration.

show abstract

Why do we worry about children?

Cited by 9 publications

References 0 publications

Through the looking-glass: Alice and Child Studies Multiple

Through the looking-glass: Alice and Child Studies Multiple

The future is queer kids: Queering the homonormative temporalities of same-sex marriage

The stop and search of minors: A ‘vital police tool’?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About