How modernity's futurism puts children in the front line
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3103183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon Jessop (0000-0002-2405-6733, University of Strathclyde, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 443-457 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0907568218778753 |
| OpenAlex | W2801583484 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
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 'queerness'. The recognition of the child's transgressive attitude to the credo of modernity can be a way of resisting increasingly instrumentalised ways of thinking about children
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Modernity · Psychoanalysis · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Transgressive · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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Potential of schools to promote spatial solidarity by recognising intergenerational power relations
Agency and Sovereignty
Conjuring up the future – neglecting the present. Being a child in today’s sustainable and smart city
Where are the adults?’
The idea of progress
Childhood
Manifestoes of Surrealism
Centuries of childhood
The Struggle of the Modern
The Dialectical Imagination
Surrealist Ghostliness
No Future
Modernism as a philosophical problem
Saint Foucault
Childlike
The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
The Surrealist Look
The new wave of childhood studies
Walter Benjamin; Selected Writings Volume 1 1913-1926
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |