How and with what consequences do young people push up against standardized views of “normal” and “healthy” development? To what extent can young people’s attempts to disrupt developmental norms be understood as political acts? I became intrigued by these questions while conducting long-term ethnographic research with a subset of young participants in the 1982 birth cohort study in Pelotas, Southern …
Birth cohorts, biosocial theory, and the politics of developmental disruption
This article is part of the series: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial: Birth cohorts as ethnographic object
