The Libelle collection, from Éditions du Seuil, offers small books,often around fifty pages, linked to current events. The goal is tointervene in the public debate by promoting argumentation and thebreadth of reflection over the simplistic shortcuts adored by themainstream media. Between the essay and the newspaper article, these aretexts that often offer a lot of food for thought. ---- Infantism is noexception. Laelia Benoît develops this concept, a translation of theEnglish childism, which aims to highlight all the prejudices andinjustices of which children are victims. They in fact make up the mostvulnerable minority of all, because although certain countries havegranted them rights, children never have any power anywhere.This state of affairs is daily undermined by distrustful discourseswhich see in each toddler a potential "child king" who must absolutelybe dominated... Infantism, like sexism, racism, validism... is a systemperfectly integrated into the workings of society and into ourunconscious minds, which pushes to maintain a category of population (inthis case, children) in a situation of inferiority.Laelia Benoît is a child psychiatrist, but her text is informed bysociology, in particular Durkheimian; it is indeed a matter of revealingsocial mechanisms and not of pointing out individual failings. Theclimate crisis is the perfect reflection of power imbalances, betweenyoung people whose inaction puts them in concrete danger in the mediumterm, and older people who can more easily afford to be short-sighted...The book ends with some ideas for getting out of infantism, or at leastfighting against it. And it starts with good emotional literacy.Children who are poorly treated are more likely to grow up cut off fromtheir emotions, and then be attracted to overconsumption and/orpositions of power. Capitalism and domination... Our societies wouldbenefit from offering children the respect they deserve.Mélanie (AL's friend)Laelia Benoît, Infantism, Éditions du Seuil, September 2023, 72 pages,4.90 euros.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Laelia-Benoit-Infantisme_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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