Publication details
Diskursivní re-konstrukce detství: mezi nostalgií a nejistotou
| Title in English | Discursive re-construction of childhood: between nostalgia and uncertainty |
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| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The discursive analysis of four texts demonstrates the discursive representation of abandoned and endangered children. The contemporary discursive field presents itself as a battle-field of various ways of talking about childhood. In this battle-field the "discourse of surveillance" represents the child as a biological object of medical care. It attempts to legitimise the hitherto practices of surveillance and disciplinisation of abandoned and endangered children in the state-controlled system of collective institutional care. The "discourse of emancipation" creates the image of the individualised child, which itself is a subject with its social rights and emotional needs. This discourse accentuates the need for intimacy and family and attempts to erode the modernist system of state surveillance over children and the medicalised care over the childs needs. |
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