Pecha Kucha 3: Memories, photographs, and archives: On historicising ‘puberty’ in the present

Pinto, Pedro

Title: Pecha Kucha 3: Memories, photographs, and archives: On historicising ‘puberty’ in the present
Creator: Pinto, Pedro
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143937
Identifier: vital:38296
Identifier: https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
Description: In 1997, Valerie Walkerdine incited researchers to use memory and fantasy as devices to explore the gendered meanings of being a child and becoming adult. Since we all once were children, we are in the ambiguous – and therefore productive – position of being both informants and ethnographers of childhood experiences. Whilst drawing on a historical investigation on puberty science, this presentation is a hybrid experiment: it combines my memories of growing up in Portugal in the early 1980s and photographs of children taken in clinical interventions from the late nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth. In articulating these materials and their different temporalities, my purpose is to explore the techniques and the power relations in which pubertal development came to being thought of, and disciplined, in contemporary societies. In doing so, I invite the possibility of historicising experience as a strategy to critically analyse our medicalised present.
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP)
Relation: Pinto, P., 2015. Pecha Kucha 3: Memories, photographs, and archives: On historicising ‘puberty’ in the present. International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP). 9th Biennial Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Relation: International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) volume 2015 number 0 2015
Rights: Publisher
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Rhodes University Proatia Statement (https://www.ru.ac.za//governance/proatia/)

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