Governing the future: childrens health and biosocial power

Kevin Ryan

doi:10.13025/20242

Governing the future: childrens health and biosocial power

Kevin Ryan

Political Science & Sociology

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Abstract

Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine childhood as a prefigurative form of biopolitics. This concerns practices that seek to actualise envisioned futures by conditioning and constraining natality, thereby shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. The article concludes by reflecting on whether this corralling of natality might be subverted with a view to refiguring childhood.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	Reframing Health and Health Policy in Ireland: A Governmental Analysis, C. Edwards and E. Fernández (eds)
Publisher	MUP
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13025/20242
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2017

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