Precarities of 21st Century Childhoods

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores internal and external precarities in the lives of children. The goal of the book is to illuminate, promote, and help situate subjectivities that are often blotted out for both the child and society.

Michael O'Loughlin is professor at Adelphi University, New York. Carol Owens is a psychoanalyst and Lacanian scholar in Dublin, Ireland. Louis Rothschild is a clinical psychologist in Baltimore County, Maryland.

List of Figures Foreword Annie G. Rogers Acknowledgments Introduction: Meditations on Precarity in Childhood Michael O'Loughlin, Carol Owens & Louis Rothschild Part I: Times Chapter 1. Found Objects Of/As Re-Membering Through the Lens of Child as Method Erica Burman Chapter 2. "School Is a Time-out in My Tough Life!" Use of Pause, Bridge and Intermittence as Resources for Student Development in School Ana Archangelo, Fábio Camargo Bandeira Villela, & Rosiane Cristina dos Santos Chapter 3. Making Space for the Unfathomable: Liminality in Inner City Schools Aileen Schloerb Chapter 4. Psychoanalyzing "From Both Sides Now": At the Extremities of Adolescence - "The Tweenies" and "The Twenties" as New Geo-Psychical Positions Carol Owens & Jamieson Webster Chapter 5. Childhood and Adolescence: The Familiar Strangeness of Virtuality Liora Stavchansky Part II: Places Chapter 6. "I Love You More": Making Childing Visible. Children's Emotional Labor in Affluent Libidinal Economies Anne-Marie Cummins