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Title: | Securing Dangerous Children as Literate Subjects | Contributor(s): | Kelly, Stephen (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | DOI: | 10.1017/cha.2016.16 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22015 | Abstract: | This paper examines how the education of children as literate subjects in schools and community settings is implicated in the politics of securing civil society. Foucault's concept of biopolitics is used to consider how young people are produced as securitised subjects. The emergence of the concept of human security as a technology for measuring human development is problematised using Bacchi's methodology. The analysis uses the Northern Territory intervention to question representations of young people as subjects of danger and as potentially dangerous subjects. This paper argues that the use of literacy by the apparatus of state and non-state governmentalities functions as a technology of risk mitigation and biopolitical government: a way of contingently positioning the freedoms of children as subjects to forms of rule. The paper concludes by suggesting that literacy has been deployed as a techne of an authoritarian form of liberalism in which the power to delimit entangles children in biopolitical strategies and sovereign intervention. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Children Australia, 41(3), p. 214-223 | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 2049-7776 1035-0772 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development 130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) 130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390102 Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development 390104 English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 280109 Expanding knowledge in education |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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