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Young and Free

[Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australi
  • ISBN-13: 9781783483075
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Joanne Faulkner
  • Price: AUD $94.99
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2016
  • Format: Paperback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Philosophy [HP]
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Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day national obsession with childhood and a colonial past with which Australia as a nation has not adequately come to terms, Young and Free draws on philosophy, literature, film and testimony. The result is a demonstration of how anxiety about childhood has become a screen for more fundamental and intractable issues that vex Australian social and political life. Joanne Faulkner argues that by interpreting these anxieties in their relation to settler-colonial Australia's unresolved conflict with Aboriginal people, new ways of conceiving of Australian community may be opened. The book engages with philosophical and literary characterizations of childhood, from Locke and Rousseau, to Freud, Bergson, Benjamin Agamben, Lacan, Ranciere and Halbwachs. The author's psychoanalytic approach is supplemented by an engagement with contemporary political philosophy that informs Faulkner's critique of the concepts of the subject, sovereignty and knowledge, resulting in a speculative postcolonial model of the subject. Cover artist credit: Lyndsay Bird Mpetyane Artwork title: Ahakeye (Bush Plum)
Acknowledgements / Introduction: Childhood and the Oblivion of Memory / Part I: Child / 1. Visions of Autonomy: Figures of the Child as Model of the Human / 2. Phantasms of Subjection and the Oblivion of the Other / 3. The Uncanny Child as Postcolonial Unconscious and Conscience / Part II: Memory / 4. Children Lost and Stolen: Collective Memory, Childhood and the Stolen Generations / 5. The Child as Witness / 6. Nostalgia, Colonialism, and Aboriginal Community / Part III: History / 7. 'Stronger Futures'? The Peculiar Temporalities of Postcolonial Community / 8. The Emergent Community: Counting the Part that Has No Part / Conclusion: The Metonymic Drift of the Symptom; Between the Child and Politics / Bibliography / Index
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