Child as Method

In this vital volume, Erica Burman presents a synthesis of her work developed over the past decade. Building from her pathbreaking critiques of developmental psychology to the strategy of plural developments, this work elaborates a new approach, generated from postcolonial, feminist intersectionality and migration studies: child as method.

Autorentext

Erica Burman is a critical psychologist, educationalist, antidevelopmentalist and feminist postcolonial scholar and activist. Her work spans mental health contexts and training as well as critical childhood studies. She has written extensively on development (in its multiple senses) and contributes to childhood and educational studies by connecting social theory with educational and psychological practices.

Inhalt

Introduction and overview: Child as method othering, interiority and materialism Part I: Culture-natures of childhood: histories, legacies and possibilities Chapter 1. Child, blood, honour Chapter 2. Children and/as animals: developmental hierarchies, affinities and solidarities Chapter 3. Sentiment: gendered, generational and animal affectivities Part II: Interior Design Chapter 4. Antidevelopmentalism and/in psychoanalysis Chapter 5. Cultural-ideological contexts of new (and old) developmentalisms Chapter 6. Development and child in psychoanalysis Chapter 7. Resisting developmentalisms Part III: Landscaped worlds: materialism, child and the more-than-human Chapter 8. Reading materialisms Chapter 9. Perec: children will be running along a white road Chapter 10. Saramago: with one arm left in Africa Chapter 11. Materialisms: neither new nor 'silly'