On Childhood and the Logic of Difference: Some Empirical Examples |
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Authors: | Johan Dahlbeck |
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Institution: | School of Teacher Education, Malm? University, Malm?, Sweden |
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Abstract: | This article argues that universal documents on children’s rights can provide illustrative examples as to how childhood is identified as a unity using difference as an instrument. Using Gille Deleuze’s theorising on difference and sameness as a framework, the article seeks to relate the children’s rights project with a critique of representation. It seeks to illustrate how the children’s rights project seems to be promoting an image of childhood that is sharply contrasted by adulthood in a dichotomised sense, as well as how, in these documents, the fate of the child is being intertwined with the fate of the state. |
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Keywords: | childhood children in need Deleuze difference sameness |
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