Session Information
13 SES 04 B, Parallel Paper Session
Parallel Paper Session
Contribution
The starting point of this research is situated within the observation that there is an increasing problematisation and medicalization of disturbing behaviour within the environment of young people and children. The purpose of this study does not concern the question of what is causing this recent phenomenon. Instead we ask the question how children and adolescents diagnosed with behavioural disorders relate themselves to this diagnose. Central in this study is an attempt to allow young persons who are diagnosed with behavioural problems to speak beyond conventions and labels. But how is this possible? Today we see a growing body of research that willingly gives voice to excluded groups of people, especially children and adolescents. The starting point of these studies is the complaint that in the era of commercial culture it is impossible to hear the voices of children. It is remarkably however that these studies often do nothing but mimic that culture. The child is the object of study in which one wishes to examine which obstacles have to be removed so that vulnerable youth would find connection with the existing community. Instead of focusing on the obstacles that prevent young people to talk, this research, in line with Jacques Rancière is about installing philosophical conversations with children that obliges us to reconsider the framework in which the child with behavioural problems appears, to move within this framework or to get away from it. Consequently, this study does not explore the perspectives and experiences of young people. Rather it tries to shed light on what a young person with a behavioural disorder does and says and how this relates to what is said about youngsters with behavioural disorders. In relation to this we make a distinction between a research approach that investigates the obstacles that should be removed so that vulnerable youth can speak on the one hand and a philosophical approach at the other. In this philosophical approach the visualization of diverse perspectives and experiences of young people do not primarily serve the acquisition of objective knowledge about the world of children and youth. Rather is this research about imagining or visualizing what cannot be heard and is not visible in society. This research is a report of these conversations.
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References
Ranciere, J. (2004) The politics of Aestetics: The distribution of the sensible. (London, Continuum) Ranciere, J. (2009). A few remarks on the method of Jacques Ranciere. Parallax, 15.3, pp.114-123.
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