The Politicised Child, Transcultural Constructions of Childhood, Psychological Trauma, and the Mind in the Modern World: Afterword.

The article explores the concept of a politicized child, the various socio-cultural constructions and representations of childhood, and the discourses and narratives of psychological trauma. Topics discussed include the public emergence of the harmed or politically tainted child, the Western ethnopsychological definition of emotion, and the rise to iconic status of emotion and of emotional trauma.