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Gender, Place & Culture
A Journal of Feminist Geography
Volume 14, 2007 - Issue 6
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At the Horizons of the Subject: Neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism and the rights of the child Part Two: Parent, caregiver, state

En los horizontes del Sujeto: Neo-liberalismo, neo-conservadurismo y los derechos del niño Segunda parte: Padres, cuidador, estado

Pages 627-640 | Published online: 09 May 2008
 

Abstract

This paper is the second of two that examine the paradoxical relationship of the child to the liberal notion of the subject. Together they explore the range of contexts in which children's relationship to parents and other caregivers raise questions about the nature of the subject qua individual, and highlight the potential for a ventriloquist discourse around the child in which political projects are mobilized by neo-liberal and neo-conservative groups that purport to speak for the child. The first paper examined the emergence of two contradictory images: the ‘knowing’ fetal subject and the confused child; the second paper explores particular forms of presencing and absencing of the child in relation to parental rights and questions of social entitlements. Both papers speak to the contorted somatography and topography of the child-as-subject that is emerging at an historical juncture when children's rights are being mobilized to undermine the gains made by a range of heterodox subjects. They point to the limits of liberal constructions of the subject in struggles for emancipation.

Este papel es el segundo de dos que examinan la relación paradójica del niño a la noción liberal del sujeto. Juntos exploran la gama de los contextos en que la relación de los niños a los padres y otros cuidadores plantean cuestiones sobre la naturaleza del sujeto qua individual, y destacan el potencial para un discurso ventrílocuo alrededor del niño en lo cual los proyectos políticos son movilizados por grupos neo-liberales y neo-conservadores que pretenden hablar para el niño. El primer papel examinó la aparición de dos imágenes contradictorias: el feto ‘con conocimiento’ y el niño confundido; el segundo papel explora formas particulares de hacer presente y ausente el niño con relación a los derechos paternales y a las cuestiones de los derechos sociales. Ambos papeles hablan al retorcimiento de la somatografía y topografía del niño como un sujeto que está emergiendo en una coyuntura histórica cuando se están movilizando los derechos de los niños de socavar los aumentos hechos por una gama de sujetos heterodoxos. Señalan a los límites de las construcciones liberales del tema en las luchas para la emancipación.

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