Children's Challenges to Efforts to Save Them: Competing Knowledges in the Child Welfare System
Children's Challenges to Efforts to Save Them: Competing Knowledges in the Child Welfare System
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儿童对拯救他们的努力所面临的挑战：儿童福利系统中的知识竞争
DOI：
10.1525/si.2010.33.3.412
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
J. Reich
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作者：
J. Reich
儿童福利制度是建立在这样一种信念之上的：儿童有时会受到父母或照顾者的威胁，必须由国家的代理人来拯救。儿童被视为被拯救的对象，但他们很少被视为积极的战略家，在他们与儿童福利系统的社会工作者的互动。使用民族志的社会工作者和少年法庭诉讼的观察过程中收集的数据，本文展示了儿童如何有自己的复杂的理解国家干预和努力，以不同程度的成功，以质疑他们的生活的官方观点，并提供竞争形式的知识。具体而言，儿童试图改写国家行为者对其家庭和家庭问题的看法，利用国家行为者作为他们对自己生活的看法的听众，并试图调动国家权力以获得个人或物质利益。
The child welfare system is founded on a belief that children are sometimes endangered by their parents or caregivers and must be saved by agents of the state. Children are perceived as objects to be saved, but they are rarely seen as active strategists in their interactions with child welfare system social workers. Using ethnographic data collected during observations of social workers and juvenile court proceedings, this article shows how children have their own complex understandings of state intervention and strive—to varying degrees of success—to contest official views of their lives and provide competing forms of knowledge. Specifically, children attempt to rework state actors' perceptions of their families and familial problems, use state actors as an audience for their versions of their lives, and attempt to mobilize state power for personal or material gain.