Reconceptualising the Child: Power and Resistance within Early Childhood Settings:
TL;DR: The authors reconceptualises the post-modern child through the lens of Havel's work on ideology, power and subject formations, arguing that children are both active creators and suffering victims of the system.
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Abstract: This article reconceptualises the postmodern Child through the lens of Havel's work on ideology, power and subject formations. Set in an any ideologically charged early childhood setting, it analyses Havel's claim that all citizens, including children, are instrumental in maintaining the ideology of the establishment, and that they are both active creators as well as suffering victims of the system. Through this theoretical lens the author argues how childhood subjectivities are produced under the ideological umbrellas of government rationalities. The article analyses this through the example of tensions between dominant and resistant discourses in early childhood settings, and the formation of childhood subjectivities of victims, supporters and rebels.
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The Sacred and the Myth: Havel's Greengrocer and the Transformation of Ideology in Communist Czechoslovakia
TL;DR: In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another as discussed by the authors, and it is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history.