“捍卫童年”：必要的界限与弱化差异

“Defending-Childhood”: Maintaining Necessary Boundaries and Weakening the Differences

“捍卫童年”在当代成为一个备受瞩目的话题,意味着童年陷入了某种危机。童年的价值性存在是“童年消逝”的焦虑之源。“捍卫童年”隐含着本质论的立场,它对童年“纯真”的假设合理化了对童年的过度保护与控制,从而可能强化社会规训的“正当性”,进一步造成儿童的弱势地位。因此,在尊重必要界限的前提下,弱化现代性话语中儿童与成人之间的所谓本质差异,在一个共性的空间寻找可以对话的语言,才更具现实意义。

“Defending-childhood” has become a hot topic in contemporary academic field, which means “childhood” is falling into some kind of crisis. The valuable existence of childhood can be the source of anxiety for the “disappearing of childhood”. “Defending-childhood” is mainly to defend children’s “innocence”, the supposed nature. This hypothesis of essentialism possibly rationalizes the excessive protection and control of childhood, and thus may strengthen the “legitimacy” of social discipline. That will cause a more disadvantaged status of children. Therefore, under the premise of necessary boundaries, it is of more practical significance to weaken the so-called essential differences in modern discourse between children and adults and search for the dialogic language in a common space.