Queerness and the Child as a Conceptual Figuration

Edelman's work is not been taken up in a sustained way by the field of childhood education. Edlman capitalizes the child as a conceptual figuration, an effort to distance it from material, embodied children. Andre smith, two thousand ten, responds to edlman's production of a subjectless critique of childhood innocence. Smith's request that a theory of queer childhood makes room for recognition of the genecidal foundations of nations states in north america deepens my understanding of child's rights. Child rights are contingent on relationality, nationality and access to knowledge. His polemical texts cannot account for the queer the child queer existence.

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