Alter-Childhoods: Biopolitics and Childhoods in Alternative Education Spaces
@article{Kraftl2015AlterChildhoodsBA, title={Alter-Childhoods: Biopolitics and Childhoods in Alternative Education Spaces}, author={Peter Kraftl}, journal={Annals of the Association of American Geographers}, year={2015}, volume={105}, pages={219 - 237} }
In this article, I consider “alter-childhoods”: explicit attempts to imagine, construct, talk about, and put into practice childhoods that differ from perceived mainstreams. I critically examine alter-childhoods at fifty-nine alternative education spaces in the United Kingdom. I analyze alternative education spaces through the lens of biopolitics, developing nascent work in children's geographies and childhood studies around hybridity and biopower. I focus on two key themes: materialities and…
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