‘Repeat after me!’: child’s play, immaturity and resistance

IF 1.8 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Critical Studies on Security Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI:10.1080/21624887.2022.2111832
Uygar Baspehlivan
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Abstract “Children are our future”. This is the dominant understanding of childhood we have today. The child, is an investment in the future. The investment that will yield the nation, the economy and the world with the continuity that it wants and requires. The future is secured by the child. This investment, however, is never secure. In fact, the investment in the child is often also a cause of debilitating insecurity. The child is feared, worried about and paranoically obsessed about. Is this all there is to the child? Whatever happens to “play” – the quintessential activity of the modern child- in this in/secure investment? In this intervention, I critique these investments by gesturing towards a disentanglement of the child away from such spectacles of crisis towards novel associations with the child as a site of political possibility. Children’s play not only comprise the pre-mature through which a future may or may not be actualised, I argue, but also offer a revelatory political possibility through its negation of the mature; in enacting the “im-mature”. The way the child resists maturity, the modes through which they resist, question, play with and negate the law and the discourse of the mature and consequently the law of the nation gestures towards alternative political becomings. Becomings through which we may find, imagine and exercise practices subversive of authoritative structures which we are all continually governed and disciplined by.
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“跟我重复!”:儿童游戏、不成熟和抗拒
摘要“孩子是我们的未来”。这是我们今天对童年的主要理解。孩子,是对未来的投资。这项投资将为国家、经济和世界带来它想要和需要的连续性。孩子保证了未来。然而,这种投资从来都不安全。事实上,对孩子的投资往往也是削弱不安全感的原因。这个孩子令人恐惧、担忧和偏执。这就是孩子的全部吗?在这种投资中,“玩耍”——现代儿童的典型活动——会发生什么?在这次干预中,我通过将儿童从这种危机景象中解脱出来,将儿童作为政治可能性的场所,来批评这些投资。我认为,儿童游戏不仅包括未来可能实现或不实现的早熟,而且通过对成熟的否定提供了一种启示性的政治可能性;在制定“im成熟”。孩子抗拒成熟的方式,他们抗拒、质疑、玩弄和否定法律的模式,以及成熟者的话语,从而国家的法律,都是走向另类政治的姿态。通过它,我们可以发现、想象和实践颠覆权威结构的做法,而我们都不断受到权威结构的统治和约束。
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