The state goes home: local hyper-vigilance of children and the global retreat from social reproduction
The growing child protection industry has built its business foundation on an all-pervasive culture of fear, whilst hiding what its mission really is—the remaking of the home as a fortress through the sale of surveillance technologies to protect it from intrusion. These are totally inappropriate tec...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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2001
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Social justice
Jahr: 2001, Band: 28, Heft: 3, Seiten: 47-56 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The growing child protection industry has built its business foundation on an all-pervasive culture of fear, whilst hiding what its mission really is—the remaking of the home as a fortress through the sale of surveillance technologies to protect it from intrusion. These are totally inappropriate technocratic solutions for wide-ranging social problems and constitute another reaction to the poisonous and elusive rhetoric that has become one of the key stocks in trade of the neoliberal state. |
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ISSN: | 2327-641X |