Childhood and the Production of Security

J. Marshall Beier is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. His teaching and research centers on issues of political subjecthood with regard to childhood, indigeneity, and the discursive/semiotic production of security more broadly. His recent publications include The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South (2011), Canadian Foreign Policy in Critical Perspective (2010), Indigenous Diplomacies (2009) and International Relations in Uncommon Places: Indigeneity, Cosmology, and the Limits of International Theory (2005).

• 1. Introduction: Children, childhoods, and security studies: an introduction 2. ‘Children and armed conflict’ and the field of security studies 3. The state of play: securities of childhood – insecurities of children 4. Resilience is its own resistance: the place of children in post-conflict settlement 5. Children, civilianhood, and humanitarian securitization 6. Telling geopolitical tales: temporality, rationality, and the ‘childish’ in the ongoing war for the Falklands-Malvinas Islands 7. Children, violence, and social exclusion: negotiation of everyday insecurity in a Colombian barrio 8. Shifting the Burden: Childhoods, Resilience, Subjecthood

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