CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Positivism, Biopower, Internment Of Japanese Americans
1 Mar 2016
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How children"s lives are shaped by and international discourse of childhood. Historical analysis of childhood is limited by a lack of evidence, so that historical representations often say more about the present then the past. Demause (1974) argued that medieval childhood was a nightmare because children were left out based on gender and the male children were sent to other families to live and were not cared for in an emotional way (pessimistic) Linda pollock- uses documents to show that children were not routinely abused. The courts treated children that they were not responsible for what they did. (optimistic) Documents say little about peasant childhood, nothing about different cultures or racial childhood. Historical accounts od non-european childhood tend to be of colonial childhoods. Eric wolf"s europe and the peoples without history (1982) argues that the idea of history it self is a european construct. According to wolf, our conception of history is based on notions of non-
