Critical Children's Rights Studies : A Research Companion / Valeria Llobet, Didier Reynaert, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, and Wouter Vandenhole.

Critical Children’s Rights Studies: An introduction -- 1 Am I a critical children’s rights researcher? A reflexive analysis of the adaptive model of childhood -- 2 Children’s liberation: A critical return to the radical work of Shulamith Firestone -- 3 Children’s rights as counter-rights: How the paternalism of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child can be countered -- 4 Children’s search for equality: Between the legal and the political -- 5 Children’s rights from a childist perspective: Theorizing social empowerment -- 6 Children’s rights and the future -- 7 Recasting children’s rights as relational, circular, and interdependent -- 8 Destabilizing images of the competent adult vs. the incompetent child in dominant children’s rights discourses through the lens of Akan notions of personhood and social relations -- 9 Those afraid of gender and childhood: Anti-gender attacks against Judith Butler in Brazil -- 10 Child, early, and forced marriage from a critical children’s rights perspective -- 11 Children’s rights regimes and the political economy of children and childhood: A historical perspective of time in interpreting social change -- 12 The hidden histories of children’s rights -- 13 Historicizing rights subjectivities in postcolonial contexts: The right to education and the deregulation of child labour in India -- 14 The social construction of children’s rights: Origins of, and developments in, the children’s rights movement in Flanders -- 15 Strategic uses and redefinitions of children’s rights: Violence against children in Argentina and Brazil -- 16 Beyond implementation: A critical children’s rights-based approach to the experiences of neurodiverse justice-involved youth -- 17 A critical perspective on children’s right to play -- 18 Children’s rights implementation as a lived practice: An ethnography of implementation in India and its potential for Critical Children’s Rights Studies -- 19 Critique after inclusion: Three pathways towards a Critical Study of Children’s Rights.

The field of Children's Rights Studies is well established and dominated by a top-down approach that considers these rights as objective standards requiring implementation in practice or policy. This book argues for a critical perspective which views the area as contested terrain with conflicting normative foundations and traditions.

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