Sharon Jessop
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Jessop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Jessop |
| SIGNATURE | JESSOP S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2405-6733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Children's food activism: Reflections on knowledge and responsibility
Children as activists have become more prominent in recent years. Their activism is manifest in relation to conspicuously political topics such as Black Lives Matter, voting rights, being able to air their views or protesting against injustices related to race, culture and other identities. Less often, if at all, do children engage politically with issues related to food. In discussing questions of food activism, this article draws on reflections…
Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such as May 1968 but tracing their roots to the earlier community‐derived activism of the US civil rights movem…
Agency and Sovereignty: Georges Bataille's Anti-Humanist Conception of Child
Georges Bataille (1887–1962) is one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century, whose anti-humanist anthropology influenced subsequent existentialist and post-structuralist philosophy. His wide-ranging writings (across philosophy, archaeology, economics, sociology, poetry, erotica and history of art) frequently mention children, childhood and childishness, and yet there has hitherto been little to no attention paid to this aspect of his…
How modernity's futurism puts children in the front line
What conceptualisations of the child might explain the communicative and rhetorical significance of their selection as targets in acts of terror? It is argued that the child as an embodiment of modernity's enthralment to the future's promises of progress or redemption puts them on this front line. As an alternative to modernity's futurism, Surrealism presents us with a conceptualisation of the child that anticipates contemporary ideas of 'queerne…
Adorno: Cultural Education and Resistance
In recent years, culture has become significantly politicized, or conspicuously de-politicized, in different parts of the UK, making its appearance in education policy of pivotal interest and ripe for critical attention. From the vantage point of Theodor Adorno’s work on the culture industry and his writings on the work of the teacher, I argue that cultural education is a site where something crucial and distinctive takes place. Within the Enligh…
Hannah Arendt 40 years on: Thinking about educational administration
Having cited a pivotal line from Hannah Arendt's renowned and provocative essay, The crisis in education, in which Arendt proclaims that it is precisely ‘for the sake of what is new and revolutiona
Children, Redemption and Remembrance in Walter Benjamin: The Child in Walter Benjamin's Writings
Walter Benjamin wrote extensively on children and childhood, though this aspect of his work has hitherto received scant attention despite continuing and growing interest in his thought. This article makes explicit the connection between his acute observations of childhood and his distinctive messianic philosophy. The twin aspects of redemption in Benjamin's writings: remembrance and now-time, as illustrated in Wim Wender's Wings of Desire, are ex…
Education for Citizenship and ‘Ethical Life’: An Exploration of the Hegelian Concepts of Bildung and Sittlichkeit
Journal Article Education for Citizenship and ‘Ethical Life’: An Exploration of the Hegelian Concepts of Bildung and Sittlichkeit Get access Sharon Jessop Sharon Jessop Correspondence: Sharon Jessop, School of Education, Lord Hope Building, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0LT, Scotland, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 46, Is…
Children's Participation: An Arendtian criticism
Hannah Arendt's critique of education in 1950s USA provides an important way of understanding the development of citizenship education. Her theory on the nature of childhood and her concepts of natality and authority give insight into both the directions of current policies and practices, and the possible future states into which these elements may crystallise. It is argued that education for citizenship is an expression of the hope that children…
Children's Participation: An Arendtian criticism
Hannah Arendt's critique of education in 1950s USA provides an important way of understanding the development of citizenship education. Her theory on the nature of childhood and her concepts of natality and authority give insight into both the directions of current policies and practices, and the possible future states into which these elements may crystallise. It is argued that education for citizenship is an expression of the hope that children…
Education for Citizenship and ‘Ethical Life’: An Exploration of the Hegelian Concepts of Bildung and Sittlichkeit
Journal Article Education for Citizenship and ‘Ethical Life’: An Exploration of the Hegelian Concepts of Bildung and Sittlichkeit Get access Sharon Jessop Sharon Jessop Correspondence: Sharon Jessop, School of Education, Lord Hope Building, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0LT, Scotland, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 46, Is…
Agency and Sovereignty: Georges Bataille's Anti-Humanist Conception of Child
Georges Bataille (1887–1962) is one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century, whose anti-humanist anthropology influenced subsequent existentialist and post-structuralist philosophy. His wide-ranging writings (across philosophy, archaeology, economics, sociology, poetry, erotica and history of art) frequently mention children, childhood and childishness, and yet there has hitherto been little to no attention paid to this aspect of his…
How modernity's futurism puts children in the front line
What conceptualisations of the child might explain the communicative and rhetorical significance of their selection as targets in acts of terror? It is argued that the child as an embodiment of modernity's enthralment to the future's promises of progress or redemption puts them on this front line. As an alternative to modernity's futurism, Surrealism presents us with a conceptualisation of the child that anticipates contemporary ideas of 'queerne…
Hannah Arendt 40 years on: Thinking about educational administration
Having cited a pivotal line from Hannah Arendt's renowned and provocative essay, The crisis in education, in which Arendt proclaims that it is precisely ‘for the sake of what is new and revolutiona
Children's Participation: An Arendtian criticism
Hannah Arendt's critique of education in 1950s USA provides an important way of understanding the development of citizenship education. Her theory on the nature of childhood and her concepts of natality and authority give insight into both the directions of current policies and practices, and the possible future states into which these elements may crystallise. It is argued that education for citizenship is an expression of the hope that children…
Education for Citizenship and ‘Ethical Life’: An Exploration of the Hegelian Concepts of Bildung and Sittlichkeit
Journal Article Education for Citizenship and ‘Ethical Life’: An Exploration of the Hegelian Concepts of Bildung and Sittlichkeit Get access Sharon Jessop Sharon Jessop Correspondence: Sharon Jessop, School of Education, Lord Hope Building, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0LT, Scotland, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 46, Is…
Children, Redemption and Remembrance in Walter Benjamin: The Child in Walter Benjamin's Writings
Walter Benjamin wrote extensively on children and childhood, though this aspect of his work has hitherto received scant attention despite continuing and growing interest in his thought. This article makes explicit the connection between his acute observations of childhood and his distinctive messianic philosophy. The twin aspects of redemption in Benjamin's writings: remembrance and now-time, as illustrated in Wim Wender's Wings of Desire, are ex…
Hannah Arendt 40 years on: Thinking about educational administration
Having cited a pivotal line from Hannah Arendt's renowned and provocative essay, The crisis in education, in which Arendt proclaims that it is precisely ‘for the sake of what is new and revolutiona
Adorno: Cultural Education and Resistance
In recent years, culture has become significantly politicized, or conspicuously de-politicized, in different parts of the UK, making its appearance in education policy of pivotal interest and ripe for critical attention. From the vantage point of Theodor Adorno’s work on the culture industry and his writings on the work of the teacher, I argue that cultural education is a site where something crucial and distinctive takes place. Within the Enligh…
How modernity's futurism puts children in the front line
What conceptualisations of the child might explain the communicative and rhetorical significance of their selection as targets in acts of terror? It is argued that the child as an embodiment of modernity's enthralment to the future's promises of progress or redemption puts them on this front line. As an alternative to modernity's futurism, Surrealism presents us with a conceptualisation of the child that anticipates contemporary ideas of 'queerne…
Agency and Sovereignty: Georges Bataille's Anti-Humanist Conception of Child
Georges Bataille (1887–1962) is one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century, whose anti-humanist anthropology influenced subsequent existentialist and post-structuralist philosophy. His wide-ranging writings (across philosophy, archaeology, economics, sociology, poetry, erotica and history of art) frequently mention children, childhood and childishness, and yet there has hitherto been little to no attention paid to this aspect of his…
Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such as May 1968 but tracing their roots to the earlier community‐derived activism of the US civil rights movem…
Children's food activism: Reflections on knowledge and responsibility
Children as activists have become more prominent in recent years. Their activism is manifest in relation to conspicuously political topics such as Black Lives Matter, voting rights, being able to air their views or protesting against injustices related to race, culture and other identities. Less often, if at all, do children engage politically with issues related to food. In discussing questions of food activism, this article draws on reflections…
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