CRIM 3657 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Juvenile Court, Hegemonic Masculinity, Slut
22 Apr 2017
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Consequences of our culture"s tendencies to position young people in the overall discourse. They are positioned in ways that are largely objectified in representations. There is a predominant power at work, as we objectify other people (we as in adult institutions and the reigning hegemony that creates a totalizing framework for understanding their lives and who they appear to be) These discourses amplify existing material inequalities through the way that differences are marked out by various strategies. They are under considerable structural constraint with respect to the construction of their identities. Nicholas: children and youth are described as one of the most intensely governed subjects in contemporary times. They exercise agency even when it is not recognized as such. We uncover the processes that produce girls as criminals. We tend to their political and social context. Positioning / power: domination & its representational strategies. Children & youth are largely objectified by representations not of their choosing.
