Biologising Parenthood - A Lost Avant-Garde,

Thinking Allowed

• Episode: Biologising Parenthood - A Lost Avant-Garde,
• Website: Thinking Allowed
• Feed URL: http://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/b006qy05.rss
• Duration: 00:28:09
• Published: 2015-03-11 17:45

A lost avant garde: Laurie Taylor examines the tension between art & money in the contemporary art museum. He talks to Matti Bunzl, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, and author of a study which takes a rare look behind the scenes of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. He found that a commitment to new and difficult work came into conflict with an imperative for growth, leading to an excessive focus on the entertaining and profitable. Also, biologising parenthood: recent years have seen claims about children's brains becoming central to child health & welfare policies. Pam Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, Birmingham, argues that this has led to a simplistic construction of the child and one which claims parenting to be the main factor in child development. Producer: Jayne Egerton.