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Author:   Bengt Sandin ,  Jonathan Josefsson ,  Karl Hanson ,  Sarada Balagopalan
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.591kg
ISBN:  

9783031044793

ISBN 10:   3031044797
Pages:   337
Publication Date:   12 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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​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.  

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Bengt Sandin is Professor Emeritus of Child Studies in the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. His previous publications include Schooling and State Formation in Early Modern Sweden (2020).  Jonathan Josefsson is Assistant Professor of Child Studies in the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. His previous publications include Children at the Borders (2016) and Empowered Inclusion: Theorizing Global Justice for Children and Youth (2020). Karl Hanson is Professor of Public Law and Director of the Centre for Children's Rights Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His previous publications include Reconceptualizing Children’s Rights In International Development: Living Rights, Social Justice, Translations (2013). He is an editor of Childhood. Sarada Balagopalan is Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, USA. Her previous publications include Inhabiting ‘Childhood’: Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India (2014). 

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