By Charlotte Faircloth “In retrospect, and from the vantage point of watching my younger friends and colleagues with their children today, my parenting style seems, if not neglectful, certainly a mite casual” Quote: Margaret K. Nelson. Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times, 2010. Photograph: Deniz Arzuk, 2014, stock image from Hürriyet newspaper, …
By Katherine Kruger “The revolution is about going to the playground with your best girlfriends. You are hanging upside down on the bars and all the blood is rushing to your head. It’s a euphoric feeling. The boys can see our underwear and we don’t really care.” Quote: Kathleen Hanna. ‘Bikini Kill: A Color and …
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By Kate Cairns “It’s our world. And we’ll do what we can to be part of the plan.It’s our world. And it’s wasting away, we’ve got to stop or we’ll pay.It’s our world. And we’ve got to save it now!” Quote: Assignment: Earth by Roger Emerson, 1990. Image: Assignment: Earth Teacher Manual. The year is …
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By Michael Lambert “In the depths of the social and economic deprivation of 1980s and 1990s Britain, this constituted a firm neoliberal commitment to a strong state when necessary – when the family was challenged – but otherwise with minimum welfare services, resources or social security, which were dispensable.” Image: Michael Lambert, 2020, from the …
By Rachel Rosen “This is what it sounds likeWhen doves cry…” Quote: Prince and the Revolution, “When doves cry,” 1984. Image: Prince & the Revolution, Around the World in a Day, detail from album art by Doug Henders for Warner Bros and Paisley Park, 1985. An insatiable hankering for roller skates. The sounds of Joan …
Pardon us for caring: Childhood and the Neoliberal Project Read More »
Historiography is equally about the present as it is about the past. We turn to history with specific questions look at what is important to us at that specific moment. That is why during the the Covid-19 pandemic there have been an apparent and predictable interest in the history of pandemics, from the plague to …