Shifting the burden

Childhoods, Resilience, Subjecthood

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5682267
AutoresJ M Beier (0000-0002-2346-1630, McMaster University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume3
Fascículo3
Páginas237-252
Data de publicação2015-09-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Studies on Security (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2162-4887 • E-ISSN: 2162-4909
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21624887.2015.1114459
OpenAlexW2252615952
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas46

Despite broadening of its boundaries over the past two decades, Security Studies has so far paid very little attention to childhood and its relationship to status quo circulations of power, to children as possessed of bona fide political subjecthood, and to the under-interrogated ideational commitments that have made these exclusions appear relatively unproblematic. In contrast, the rise of resilience thinking across a range of disciplines in recent years has attracted considerable attention from security scholars and practitioners alike. This article takes a critical perspective on the idea of resilience in connection with children’s (in)security, arguing that the failure to take seriously children’s political subjecthood has dire implications for the figuring and assignment of responsibility for traumas visited upon young people in a range of contexts. Moving beyond zones of conflict to consider also the everyday of (post)industrial societies of the Global North, it finds that resilience thinking together with an impoverished conception of childhood agency may move even the most benignly conceived interventions in cases of real or presumed childhood trauma to place responsibility for the work of forbearance on children themselves

Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Social science · Sociology · Status quo · Gender Studies · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Social Psychology