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Childhood as a ‘national asset’ Childhood as a ‘national asset’
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Reformatory education: the school as a ‘moral hospital’ Reformatory education: the school as a ‘moral hospital’
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The strategy of hygiene The strategy of hygiene
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Healthy Ireland Healthy Ireland
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Investing in childhood Investing in childhood
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Enterprise as a game of inequalities Enterprise as a game of inequalities
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The datafication of childhood The datafication of childhood
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The obesity epidemic and human futures The obesity epidemic and human futures
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6 Childhood as a national asset: the medical and moral framing of ‘health’
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Published:October 2020
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Abstract
Chapter 6 presents a genealogy of reformatory education and public hygiene, focusing on how ‘health’ has come to traverse medical and moral conceptions of childhood, and how the figure of the healthy child – once configured as a ‘national asset’ – has since become a form of ‘capital investment’. Tracking this through the datafication of childhood, the core concern is how neoliberal enterprise culture has become a Procrustean bed, with biosocial power doing the work of fashioning life by empowering and supporting children in accordance with prescribed ‘outcomes’. The chapter concludes by taking up a critical perspective on the issue of obesity, examining the battle against childhood obesity as one of the ways in which neoliberal enterprise culture is immunised.
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