GCST2612 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Northern Territory National Emergency Response, Lauren Berlant, Lee Edelman

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Gender and Cultural Studies
• Course: GCST2612
• Professor: Jessica Kean

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Week 2: child politics: how the figure or the idea of the child is used politically. "imagined moment of the pure and innocent child: flexible in political maneuvering. "the child is so often invoked as a discursive category with which one cannot disagree" (baird, "describe both formal and informal secular and religious discourse tat mobilses the figure of the child in such ways that constitute the figure as a fixed and absolute category" (baird, 292- Impossible to question a person that uses children as an argument. "to fail to support the package in its entirety is to either be a child abuser or to accept and suppo(cid:396)t (cid:272)hild a(cid:271)use. Yet it is ou(cid:396) i(cid:374)he(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:396)espo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ility to (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) the ho(cid:449), e(cid:448)e(cid:374) if (cid:449)e agree with the why: northern territory intervention, little children are sacred report. "no(cid:374)e a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g us (cid:449)ho (cid:449)ould (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) the sa(cid:374)(cid:272)tity of ou(cid:396) (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374) (cid:272)hild p(cid:396)ote(cid:272)tio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d survival remain central to the fight for aboriginal rights"