The Politics of Children's Rights and Representation

This edited volume investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes: wherein they are not mere spectators and objects of transformations but instead actively shape them through various social, economic, and polit...

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Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Sandin, Bengt (Editor), Josefsson, Jonathan (Editor), Hanson, Karl (Editor), Balagopalan, Sarada (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Series:	Studies in Childhood and Youth,
Subjects:	Family policy. Sociology. Social groups. Social service. Human rights. Juvenile delinquents. Education. Children. Children, Youth and Family Policy. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. Children and Youth Work. Politics and Human Rights. Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice. Childhood Education.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Representing children
Chapter 1. Recognizing children's rights: From child protection to children's human rights - the 1979 Swedish ban on corporal punishment in perspective
Chapter 2. Adults in charge: The limits of formal child participatory processes for societal transformation
Chapter 3. Children's participation in their right to education: Learning from the Delhi High Court Cases, 1997-2001
Chapter 4. Representing the child before the court
Chapter 5. Could it be that they do not want to hear what we have to say?' organised working children and the international politics and representations of child labour
Chapter 6. Children without childhood: Representations of the child-soldier as an international emergency
Chapter 7. Children's representation in the transnational mirror maze
Chapter 8. Combatting child poverty in the childhood moratorium: A representational lens on children's rights
Chapter9. Deliberative disobedience as a strategy for claiming rights and representation in the family: the case of Accra's street children
Chapter 10. Child Figurations in youth climate justice activism: The Visual rhetoric of the Fridays for Future on Instagram
Chapter 11. Political strategies of self-representation: The case of young Afghan migrants in Sweden
Chapter 12. Political representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in Australia. .

The Politics of Children's Rights and Representation

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