title: The Images of Childhood and Children in the Symbolic Politics
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metadata.value: Riabova, Tatiana B.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Riabov, Oleg V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-11-27T10:40:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-11-27T10:40:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Riabova T. B., Riabov O. V. The Images of Childhood and Children in the Symbolic Politics. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2019, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 417–434.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu23.2019.307
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16700
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyzes principal regularities in the use of images of childhood and children in
  the symbolic politics. The authors note the growing politicization of the issues of childhood in
  the recent years, which determines academic and social relevance of the child study from the
  Political Science perspective. The paper shows that the symbol of childhood plays a significant
  role in the legitimation and delegitimation of power and political system, the discourse of
  military conflicts, the civilizational discourse and other forms of symbolic politics. The symbol
  possesses the traits which make it useful for political actors’: the connection to myth and the
  sacral that determines its ability to trigger strong emotional response; plasticity and subjectivity
  in interpretation; simplicity of perception; ability to create symbolic boundaries and to serve
  as a way of inclusion and exclusion. The symbol of childhood appeals to the kinship relations,
  which contributes to representing the social ties as natural, strong, and legitimate. This symbol
  helps to bring to the symbolic politics such binary oppositions as culture vs. nature, reason vs.
  emotions, power vs. submission, freedom vs. dependence, individuality vs. collectivity, actuality
  vs. potentiality. In making the meanings and evaluations of social reality with the help of this
  symbol the actors use various mechanisms of symbolic politics: drawing symbolic boundaries,
  employing conceptual metaphors, resemiotization, visualization, and stereotipization. In spite of
  variability of its meanings, one can note its core characteristics, and the most significant of them
  is otherness in regards to the norm — the image of the adult human, above all, that of the adult
  male, that determines both positive and negative context of employing this symbol. The authors
  point out that the symbol of childhood has a significant potential for the use in symbolic politics.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant 18-18-00233 “Cinema images
  of Soviet and American enemies in the symbolic policy of the Cold War: Comparative Analysis” and
  the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 19-011-00748 “Russian Bear” in modern symbolic
  politics: Russian and Western contexts.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 15; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: childhood
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: children
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: symbolic politics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political symbols
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legitimation of power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: war propaganda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political mobilization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Images of Childhood and Children in the Symbolic Politics
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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