Governing Generations and Protecting Children in the Nordic Context

Timo Harrikari is Professor of Social Work at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author, editor or co-editor of Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity; Social Work and Social Change. The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Space; and Social Work During COVID-19: Glocal Perspectives and Implications for the Future of Social Work, all published by Routledge.

• Section 1: Introduction 1.Framing the Longue Durée Section 2: Medieval Foundations: Kinship, Salvation, and Conditional Protection 2.Born into Order: Baptism, Lineage, and Half Wergild Section 3: Early Modern Transformations: Sin, Discipline, and Punitive Power 3.Governing Through Sin and Punishing: Disciplining, Shaming, and Capital Punishment Section 4: The Pre-Modern Reconfiguration: Law, Minority and Waiting Rooms of Adulthood 4.Recasting Childhood in Law: Criminal Law Reforms, the Erosion of Patria Potestas, and the Weak Will of ‘the Minor’ Section 5: The Rise and Consolidation of Modern Child Welfare 5.Making Children Governable: Social Defence, Protective Education and ‘Misbehaving’ Children 6.Biopolitics and the Nation: Heredity, Degeneration, and the Problem of the ‘Psychopath’ 7.Diagnosing Childhood: ‘Disturbed’ Children, ‘Maladjusted’ Youth, and Institutional Treatment 8.From Protection to Welfare: Civil Rights, Universalism, and the Reorganisation of Child Welfare Section 6: Toward Second Modernity? Rights, Risk, and Reconfiguration 9.The Abstract Child: Human Rights and the Radical Reconfiguration of Generational Relations 10.Governing Through Risk: Concern, Uncertainty, and Early Intervention 11.From Welfare to Safeguarding: Constitutionalisation and the Reprogramming of Child Welfare Section 7: Beyond Late Modernity? Crisis, Reaction, and Risk-Averse Governance 12.When System Fails: Continuous Moral Shock, Public Inquiries, and Risk-Averse Governance Section 8: Reconsidering the Longue Durée 13.How are Children Protected? Governing Generational Relations in the Longue Durée Epilogue