1. Barbara Baird uses the Northern Territory Intervention as an example of ‘the deployment of the figure of ‘the child’ to carry diverse political and cultural agendas’ (Baird, 2008, p. 291). Pick
your own example of contemporary ‘child politics’ (e.g. news media, documentaries or advertising campaigns) and provide a critical analysis of the way the figure of the child is deployed within it.
2. Critically analyse the representation of subculture in a teen film or TV episode. You may want to consider: how youth investment in subcultural identification is explained within the text and/or
the imagined relationship between subculture and race/class/gender/sexuality.