子ども期、周縁性、文明化の過程の政治学：子どもの歴史的主体性の言説的系譜学 Childhood, Marginality, and the Politics of the Civilising Process : A Discursive Genealogy of Children’s Historical Subjectivity

著者名：Amani, Behnaz

Palgrave Macmillan（2026/08/06発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9783032246790
• eISBN：9783032246806

Description

This book offers a critical re-evaluation of the institution of childhood through a discursive and genealogical lens, examining how modern subjectivity, power, and marginality have shaped the child's figure. Drawing on critical theory, Foucauldian analysis, and poststructuralist thought, it traces the historical and literary construction of the child subject from the Enlightenment through to the neoliberal present. Analysing canonical texts—including the Grimms’ fairy tales, Carroll’s Alice, and Gaiman’s Coraline—the book interrogates the civilising process and its role in producing normative childhood. It challenges prevailing assumptions in Childhood Studies, children’s literature, and educational theory by foregrounding the contradictions, exclusions, and political functions embedded in childhood discourse. This work speaks to scholars in Childhood and Youth Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory, and Children’s Literature, seeking a deeper understanding of how the child is discursively mobilised in social control, identity formation, and cultural reproduction projects. By problematising the utopian ideal of childhood, the book reorients the field toward a more critical, historically grounded engagement with the politics of marginality.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Theorizing Childhood - Between Ontology and Ideology.- Chapter 2: The Advent of the Civilising Process and the Birth of Modern Technologies of Power as Epitomized by the Move from Folk Tales to Fairy Tales.- Chapter 3: The Conteuses and the Gender Politics of Civilite.- Chapter 4: Fairy Tale Reform and the Moral Instrumentalisation of Childhood in Perrault.- Chapter 5: The Institution of Childhood and the Formation of the Modern Identity of Nationalism through German Fairy Tales.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.