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Book SynopsisThis book contains a range of original studies on one of the major challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory militias, as in Somalia, Sierra Leone or Congo, but, more generally, that of the problematic insertion of large numbers of young people in the socio-economic and political order of post-colonial Africa. Even educated youths are being confronted with a lack of opportunities, blocked social mobility, and despair about the future. African youth, while forming a numerical majority, largely feel excluded from power, are socio-economically marginalized, thwarted in their ambitions, and have little access to representative positions or political power.Trade Review'The remarably contemporary case studies vary in theme and cover youth in East Central Africa and five nations on the hump of West Africa. R.M Fulton, Choice, June 2005.Table of ContentsContents Illustrations vii Maps vii Tables vii Photographs vii 1 Being young in Africa: The politics of despair and renewal 1 Jon Abbink PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON YOUTH AS AGENTS OF CHANGE 2 Towards a political history of youth in Muslim northern Nigeria, 1750-2000 37 Murray Last 3 Imagined generations: Constructing youth in revolutionary Zanzibar 55 G. Thomas Burgess PART II: STATE, CRISIS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF YOUTH 4 Clash of generations? Youth identity, violence and the politics of transition in Kenya, 1997-2002 81 Peter Mwangi Kagwanja 5 Re-generating the nation: Youth, revolution and the politics of history in Côte d’Ivoire 110 Karel Arnaut 6 War, changing ethics and the position of youth in South Sudan 143 Jok Madut Jok 7 Anglophone university students and Anglophone nationalist struggles in Cameroon 161 Piet Konings 8 Past the Kalashnikov: Youth, politics and the state in Eritrea 189 Sara Rich Dorman PART III: INTERVENTIONS: DEALING WITH YOUTH IN CRISIS 9 From generational conflict to renewed dialogue: Winning the trust of street children in Lomé, Togo 207 Yves Marguerat 10 Children as conflict stakeholders: Towards a new discourse on young combatants 228 Angela McIntyre 11 Warriors, hooligans and mercenaries: Failed statehood and the violence of young male pastoralists in the Horn of Africa 243 Simon Simonse 12 Reintegrating young ex-combatants in Sierra Leone: Accommodating indigenous and wartime value systems 267 Krijn Peters List of authors 297

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Book SynopsisFor decades, Professor Michael Freeman has without doubt been one of the world's most infuential scholars in international children's rights. His scholarship has been at the forefront of the field and has helped shape many of the developments within it. This collection offers the reader a thought-provoking snapshot of some of his most seminal essays, written and/or published over the past 30 years. Together they highlight above all the interdisciplinary nature of the issues he discusses. Legal doctrinal questions that make the case for recognising that children have rights are of course discussed. But aspects of moral and political philosophy are dealt with as well, in addition to, among other other disciplines, history, theology, psychology and antropology.

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Book SynopsisRe-understanding the Child’s Right to Identity - On belonging, Responsiveness and Hope, by Ya'ir Ronen offers an innovative understanding of the right to identity aiming to transform its meaning and thus its protection. Drawing on sources from different disciplines, including law, theology, philosophy, psychology and social work, the author offers a vision of social and legal change in which law is a healing force. In it, policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging recognizing human interdependence. They dignify children's disempowered narratives through their responsiveness, protect children's need to be authentic beings and nourish the hope for change and growth in children at risk and their familiesTable of ContentsExcerpt of Table of Contents Permissions; Acknowledgements; Forward; Prologue; Chapter 1: Re-understanding the Right to Identity as a Right to Belonging I. Introduction; II. The rationale for re-understanding the right to Identity; III. International law; IV. Identity in two cases; V. Conclusion; Chapter 2: Responsiveness to Children and Law’s Healing Power I.Introduction; II. Responsiveness to children's suffering, Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the path blazed by Emmanuel Levinas; III. Is there a cure to the universal phenomenon of denying children's suffering?; IV. How can protecting children actualize democracy's unique potential?; V. What should be the principal aim of state action on behalf of the suffering child?; VI. How can we respond to the child's suffering through The Best Interests Principle?; VII. More on responding to the child's experience in a multicultural society; VIII. Conclusion; Chapter 3: Children’s Identity, Constructing Memory through Law and Its Responsiveness to Children I. Introduction; II. Alienation, children's experience and doctrinal thinking; III. Self-constructing identity and remembering as dynamic processes; IV. Authoring Memory through law and the Challenge of Psychological Mindedness; V. Struggling over Memory; VI. Protecting the Family Lives of Children from Disadvantaged Homes; VII. Conclusion; Chapter 4: The Child’s Right to be Oneself I. Introduction; II. Neglect of the need 'to be' and a preoccupation with material progress; III. Protecting the child‘s need to be a spiritually authentic being; IV. Postmodernism and the need to be one‘s self within a committed family that offers the child values; Chapter 5 The Courage to Hope and Protecting Children’s Sense of Belonging: The Case of Child Protection I. Introduction; II. On skepticism and reality; III. On social responsibility and the public response to children at risk and their families ; IV. Conclusion. Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the variety of ways in which childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a time of rapid change, and the history of childhood reflects the impact of new expectations, lived realities and national responsibilities on the youngest members of societies undergoing monumental change because of ideological, wartime and demographic shifts. Drawing on comparisons both within the Balkans, Turkey and the Arab lands and with Western Europe and beyond, the chapters investigate the many ways in which upheaval and change affected the youth. Particular attention is paid to changing conceptions of childhood, gender roles and newly dominant national imperatives. Contributors include: Elif Akşit, Laurence Brockliss, Nazan Çiçek, Alex Drace-Francis, Benjamin C. Fortna, Naoum Kaytchev, Duygu Köksal, Kathryn Libal, Nazan Maksudyan, Heidi Morrison, and Philipp Wirtz. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Childhood In The Late Ottoman Empire and After Benjamin C. Fortna Introduction The Western Concept of Childhood Laurence Brockliss I CONCEPTIONS OF CHILDHOOD Chapter One The Interplay Between Modernization and the Reconstruction of Childhood: Romantic Interpretations of the Child in Early Republican Era Popular Magazines, 1924–1950 Nazan Çiçek Chapter Two Child Poverty and Emerging Children’s Rights Discourse in Early Republican Turkey Kathryn Libal Chapter Three Nation-Building and Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt Heidi Morrison II WAR, GENDER AND NATION Chapter Four Becoming a Girl in Ottoman Novels Elif Akşit Chapter Five Conscripts into Soldiers, Peasants into Patriots: The Army and Nation-Building in Serbia and Bulgaria, 1878–1912 Naoum Kaytchev Chapter Six A Triangle of Regrets: Training Ottoman Children in Germany during the First World War Nazan Maksudyan Chapter Seven Bonbons and Bayonets: Mixed Messages of Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin Fortna III REMEMBERING CHILDHOOD Chapter Eight Locating Remembrance: Regimes of Time and Cultures of Autobiography in Post-Independence Romania Alex Drace-Francis Chapter Nine Presenting Ottoman childhoods in post-Ottoman Autobiographies Philipp Wirtz Chapter Ten Escaping to Girlhood in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Demetra Vaka’s and Selma Ekrem’s Childhood Memories Duygu Köksal

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Book SynopsisChild-friendly Justice assesses how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has affected the development of child law and the promotion of children’s rights in the past twenty-five years. Its 24 studies probe a broad variety of issues relating to children’ s contact with civil, administrative and criminal justice systems, the protection of child integrity and their right to participation, information and proper representation. The contributors - all experts on child-related matters - represent international organisations, academia and NGOs. They provide a clear picture of the origins of the current problems in realising child-friendly justice, and they discuss possible solutions.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction; Part I- Basic Components of Child-friendly Justice Systems A Quarter of a Century with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Mats Melin Children’s Rights, Freedom from Violence and Criminal Justice Marta Santos Pais Reflections on Child-friendly Justice Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro Best Interests of the Child Jean Zermatten Corporal Punishment, Crime and Human Rights: Lessons for Child-friendly Justice Ashley Stewart-Tufescu & Joan E. Durrant Relational Representation: The Empowerment of Children in Justice Systems Hrefna Friðriksdóttir Children’s Right to be Heard from Their Unique Perspectives Ann-Christin Cederborg Children’s Evidence and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Improving the Legal System for Children Deborah A. Goldfarb, Gail S. Goodman & Michael J. Lawler Child- Sensitive Justice for Children of Imprisoned Parents Adele Jones & Alex Hirschfield Challenges in Implementing Child Rights – a Call for Innovative Governance for Children Trond Waage Part II- Children and Criminal Justice Systems It Is Not Child-friendly to Make Children Criminals Peter Newell From the Inside – Children and Young People on Life in Police Cells and in Remand Prisons Fredrik Malmberg Without Resorting to Judicial Proceedings’: Diversion and Mediation Rusudan Mikhelidze Children’s Houses – Barnahus: Today and in the Future Anna Kaldal & Carl Göran Svedin Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime in India Asha Bajpai Evidential Difficulties in Criminal Proceedings Concerning Alleged Child Sexual Abuse against Children with Neuropsychiatric Disorders Katrin Lainpelto Part III- Children and Civil and Administrative Justice Justice for the Migrant Child: The Protective Force of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Mary E. Crock Unaccompanied and Separated Asylum-Seeking Minors: Implementing a Rights-Based Approach in the Asylum Process Rebecca Thorburn Stern The Child’s Right to Protection of Private Life and Family Life Elisabeth Gording Stang The Right to a Fair Trial from a Child’s Perspective – Reflections from a Comparative Analysis of two Child-protection Systems Pernilla Leviner Part V- Child-friendly Justice: Continental Perspectives Europa: Children and Justice Nils Muižnieks &Françoise Kempf European Court of Human Rights Elisabet Fura Africa: What’s in a Name? ‘Child friendly’ Justice in Africa Julia Sloth-Nielsen Americas: Access to Justice in the Inter-American System: Standards and Challenges Rosa Maria Ortiz

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Book SynopsisIn Kids Those Days, Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary Valante have organized a collection of interdisciplinary research into childhood throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors to the volume investigate childhood from Greece to the “Celtic-Fringe,” looking at how children lived, suffered, thrived, or died young. Scholars from myriad disciplines, from art and archaeology to history and literature, offer essays on abandonment and abuse, fosterage and guardianship, criminal behavior and child-rearing, child bishops and sainthood, disabilities and miracles, and a wide variety of other subjects related to medieval children. The volume focuses especially on children in the realms of religion, law, and vulnerabilities. Contributors are Paul A. Broyles, Sarah Croix, Gavin Fort, Sophia Germanidou, Danielle Griego, Máire Johnson, Daniel T. Kline, Jenni Kuuliala, Lahney Preston-Matto, Melissa Raine, Eve Salisbury, Ruth Salter, Bridgette Slavin, and Mary A. Valante.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Out from a Shadow  Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary A. Valante part 1: Children in Medieval Religion 1 The Disrobing Child in the Entry into Jerusalem Scene: An Element of Realism or Symbolism in Byzantine Art?  Sophia Germanidou 2 Boy Becoming Man   Liturgical Inversion in the Boy Bishop Ceremony in Medieval England  Gavin Fort 3 Apocryphal Youth   The Childhood of the Irish Saint  Máire Johnson 4 Minors and the Miraculous   The Cure-Seeking Experiences of Children in Twelfth-Century English Hagiography  Ruth J. Salter 5 The Infirm Child between Parental Worry and Divine Powers  Jenni Kuuliala part 2: Children in Medieval Law and Justice 6 “I Would Like to Make It Up to You by Fostering Your Son”   Fosterage and Fixing Relations in Medieval Iceland  Lahney Preston-Matto 7 Childhood in the Common Law Courts of Medieval Ireland  Bridgette Slavin 8 Puerile Justice   The Voice of a Boy in Jack and His Stepdame  Melissa Elizabeth Raine 9 Foreign Guardianship and the Networked Child in Medieval English Romance  Paul Broyles part 3: Vulnerable Children 10 The Loss of Innocence   Childhood and Transition to Adulthood in the Mortuary Practices of the Early Viking Age  Sarah Croix 11 It Takes a Village   Community Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval England  Danielle Griego 12 Havelok’s Sisters   Vulnerability and the Child Body  Eve Salisbury 13 Patriarchy, Violence and Sacrifice in the Middle English Slaughter of the Innocents Plays  Daniel T. Kline 14 Abandoned, Overworked, Abused   The Dark Side of Childhoods in Early Medieval Ireland  Mary A. Valante Bibliography Suggested Additional Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by a variety of scholars, compiled to celebrate the silver anniversary of The International Journal of Children’s Rights, builds on work already in the literature to reveal where we are now at and how the law concerned with children is reacting to new developments. New, or relatively new subject matter is explored, such as film classification, intersex genital mutilation, the right to development. Rights within the context of sport are given an airing. We are offered new perspectives on discipline, on the significance of “rights flowing downhill,” on the so-called six “ General Principles.“ The uses to which the CRC is put in legal reasoning in some legal systems is critically examined. Though not intended as an audit, the collection offers a fascinating image of where the field of children's right is at now, the progress that has been made, and what issues will require work in the future.Table of ContentsIntroduction Do Rights Still Flow Downhill?  Katherine Hunt Federle Does Exactly What it Says on the Tin? A Critical Analysis and Alternative Conceptualisation of the So-called “General Principles” of the Convention on the Rights of the Child  Karl Hanson and Laura Lundy Common Criticisms of Children’s Rights and 25 Years of the ijcr  Priscilla Alderson Philosophy with Children: A Rights-based Approach to Deliberative Participation  Claire Cassidy The Role of Canada’s Child and Youth Advocates: A Social Constructionist Approach  Daniella Bendo and Richard C. Mitchell What is “Discipline” in the Age of Children’s Rights?  Joan E. Durrant and Ashley Stewart-Tufescu Developing the Right to Development  Noam Peleg Intersex Genital Mutilation – A Western Version offgm  Melinda Jones Norwegian Children’s Rights in Sport and Coaches’ Understanding of Talent  Jan Emil Ellingsen and Anne G. Danielsen Children’s Participation Rights in Film Classification Systems  Tim Covell Teaching and Learning Traditions in Children’s Human Rights Curriculum Emphases in Theory and Practice  Lotta Brantefors and Nina Thelander Stand up to Children’s Rights: An Exercise in Listening in English as a Foreign Language  Rigoberto Castillo, Natalia A. Gabalo and Natalia Segura Use of the uncrc in Family Law Cases in England and Wales  Stephen Gilmore Words Matter: Textual Abuse of Childhood in the English-Speaking World, and the Role of Language in the Continuing Denial of Children’s Rights  Bernadette J. Saunders Article 12 of the un Convention on the Rights of Children Where Have We Come from, Where Are We Now and Where to from Here?  Professor Mark Henaghan Tales of the Apocalypse: The Child’s Right to a Secure Climate  Anne McGillivray Index

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Book SynopsisIn Transfers of Belonging, Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one way of raising children, but seen as the appropriate way of doing so. This changed profoundly with the arrival of European ideas about birth parents being the ‘right’ parents, but also with the introduction of schooling and the differentiation of life chances. Besides providing deep historical and ethnographical insights, Transfers of Belonging offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction  Baatombu Peasants  National and Regional Embeddedness  Social Relations  Kinship Terminology  Fieldwork and Methods  Field Research  Thick Participation  Childhood Studies  Norm, Practice, Emotion 1 Theoretical Approaches and Concepts on Child Fostering  A Structural-functionalist Perspective: Parenthood and Social Reproduction  Bearing and Begetting: Birth Parenthood  Status Entitlement: Legal Parenthood  Nurturance, Training and Sponsorship: Social Parenthood  Delegation of Parenthood: Types, Reasons and Functions  Discussion  A Structuralist Perspective: The Circulation of Children  Discussion  Other Perspectives  The Turn to the Actor  Transfers of Imagined Belonging 2 Parenthood in Rural Borgu  Birth Parenthood  An Open Secret  Birth  Giving Birth in the Health Centre  Rites of Transition  Everyday Practices  Acquiring Knowledge  Yearning  Happy Foster Children  Conceptions of Parenthood  Motherhood  Fatherhood  Child Fostering  Decisions  Transferring a Child  Possible Foster Parents  Same Sex  Kinship  Hierarchy  Order of Siblings  Reasons for Child Fostering  Kinship Cohesion  Preventing Regressive Behaviour in Children  Social Parenthood Supports the Hierarchies  Children as Workers  Childlessness  Crisis Fostering  Women’s Interests  Child Fostering, Gender and Marriage  Exchanging Children and Women  Conflicts  Avoidance and Indirect Communication  Open Conflicts  Self-reliance  Foster Parents  Running Away  Arguments against Child Fostering  Kinship Conflicts  Schooling  A Bad Investment 3 Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century  Precolonial Times  Everyday Realities  Violence and Gifts  Oedipus in Africa?  Colonial Changes  End of the Raids  New Conceptions  Sero Toro Tuunku and his Foster Son  New Life Courses  Christian Missions  The Introduction of Schools  State Policy  The Post-colonial Period  Urban Baatombu Households  Expansion of Educational Facilities  Between Town and Village: A Conflict  Child Fostering in Urban Areas: Cotonou and Parakou  Urban Households  Mobility and Education  Household Composition  Fostering and Education  Belonging  Well-being  Exploitation?  Generations  Child Fostering in the Villages of Tɛbɔ, Kika and Yarɔ  Frequency of Child Fostering  Birth Rate and Child Mortality  Gender  Schooling and Fostering  Family Relationship between Children and their Foster Parents  On the threshold of the 21st Century: Two Conflicts  Rafa  Djamila  Conclusion Appendix  Names and Interviews  Interviews Cited References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates and uncover paradoxes and ambivalences that are actualised when seeking to make the right choices in the best interests of the child. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child established a milestone for the 20th century. Many of these ideas still stand, but time calls for new reflections, empirical descriptions and knowledge as provided in this book. Special attention is directed to the conceptualisation of children and childhood cultures, the missing voices of infants and fragile children, as well as transformations during times of globalisation and change. All chapters contribute to understand and discuss aspects of societal demands and cultural conditions for modern-day children age 0–18, accompanied by pointers to their future. Contributors are: Eli Kristin Aadland, Wenche Bjorbækmo, Jorunn Spord Borgen, Gunn Helene Engelsrud, Kristin Vindhol Evensen, Eldbjørg Fossgard, Liv Torunn Grindheim, Asle Holthe, Liisa Karlsson, Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, Jonatan Leer, Ida Marie Lyså, Elin Eriksen Ødegaard, Czarecah Tuppil Oropilla, Susanne Højlund Pedersen, Anja Maria Pesch, Karen Klitgaard Povlsen, Gro Rugseth, Pauline von Bonsdorff, Hege Wergedahl and Susanne C. Ylönen.Table of ContentsForeword  Gunn Helene Engelsrud Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introducing Childhood Cultures in Transformation  Elin Eriksen Ødegaard and Jorunn Spord Borgen 2 In the Best Interests of the Child: From the Century of the Child to the Century of Sustainability  Liv Torunn Grindheim, Jorunn Spord Borgen and Elin Eriksen Ødegaard 3 On Equal Terms? On Implementing Infants’ Cultural Rights  Pauline von Bonsdorff 4 Children with Severe, Multiple Disabilities: Interplaying Beings, Communicative Becomings  Kristin Vindhol Evensen 5 Spaces for Transitions in Intergenerational Childhood Experiences  Czarecah Oropilla 6 Managing Risk and Balancing Minds: Transforming the Next Generation through ‘Frustration Education’  Ida Marie Lyså 7 Children’s Food Choices during Kindergarten Meals  Hege Wergedahl, Eldbjørg Fossgard, Eli Kristin Aadland and Asle Holthe 8 Children, Food and Digital Media: Questions, Challenges and Methodologies  Karen Klitgaard Povlsen, Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, Jonatan Leer and Susanne Højlund 9 ‘Children at Risk’ in Public Health Policy: What Is at Risk?  Jorunn Spord Borgen, Gro Rugseth and Wenche S. Bjorbækmo 10 ‘Childish’ beyond Age: Reconceptualising the Aesthetics of Resistance  Susanne C. Ylönen 11 Approaching Agency in Intra-Activities  Liv Torunn Grindheim 12 Studying Families’ and Teachers’ Multilingual Practices and Ideologies in Kindergartens: A Nexus Analytic Approach  Anja Maria Pesch 13 Studies of Child Perspectives in Methodology and Practice with ‘Osallisuus’ as a Finnish Approach to Children’s Reciprocal Cultural Participation  Liisa Karlsson 14 Global Paradoxes and Provocations in Education: Exploring Sustainable Futures for Children and Youth  Jorunn Spord Borgen and Elin Eriksen Ødegaard Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates and uncover paradoxes and ambivalences that are actualised when seeking to make the right choices in the best interests of the child. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child established a milestone for the 20th century. Many of these ideas still stand, but time calls for new reflections, empirical descriptions and knowledge as provided in this book. Special attention is directed to the conceptualisation of children and childhood cultures, the missing voices of infants and fragile children, as well as transformations during times of globalisation and change. All chapters contribute to understand and discuss aspects of societal demands and cultural conditions for modern-day children age 0–18, accompanied by pointers to their future. Contributors are: Eli Kristin Aadland, Wenche Bjorbækmo, Jorunn Spord Borgen, Gunn Helene Engelsrud, Kristin Vindhol Evensen, Eldbjørg Fossgard, Liv Torunn Grindheim, Asle Holthe, Liisa Karlsson, Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, Jonatan Leer, Ida Marie Lyså, Elin Eriksen Ødegaard, Czarecah Tuppil Oropilla, Susanne Højlund Pedersen, Anja Maria Pesch, Karen Klitgaard Povlsen, Gro Rugseth, Pauline von Bonsdorff, Hege Wergedahl and Susanne C. Ylönen.Table of ContentsForeword  Gunn Helene Engelsrud Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introducing Childhood Cultures in Transformation  Elin Eriksen Ødegaard and Jorunn Spord Borgen 2 In the Best Interests of the Child: From the Century of the Child to the Century of Sustainability  Liv Torunn Grindheim, Jorunn Spord Borgen and Elin Eriksen Ødegaard 3 On Equal Terms? On Implementing Infants’ Cultural Rights  Pauline von Bonsdorff 4 Children with Severe, Multiple Disabilities: Interplaying Beings, Communicative Becomings  Kristin Vindhol Evensen 5 Spaces for Transitions in Intergenerational Childhood Experiences  Czarecah Oropilla 6 Managing Risk and Balancing Minds: Transforming the Next Generation through ‘Frustration Education’  Ida Marie Lyså 7 Children’s Food Choices during Kindergarten Meals  Hege Wergedahl, Eldbjørg Fossgard, Eli Kristin Aadland and Asle Holthe 8 Children, Food and Digital Media: Questions, Challenges and Methodologies  Karen Klitgaard Povlsen, Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, Jonatan Leer and Susanne Højlund 9 ‘Children at Risk’ in Public Health Policy: What Is at Risk?  Jorunn Spord Borgen, Gro Rugseth and Wenche S. Bjorbækmo 10 ‘Childish’ beyond Age: Reconceptualising the Aesthetics of Resistance  Susanne C. Ylönen 11 Approaching Agency in Intra-Activities  Liv Torunn Grindheim 12 Studying Families’ and Teachers’ Multilingual Practices and Ideologies in Kindergartens: A Nexus Analytic Approach  Anja Maria Pesch 13 Studies of Child Perspectives in Methodology and Practice with ‘Osallisuus’ as a Finnish Approach to Children’s Reciprocal Cultural Participation  Liisa Karlsson 14 Global Paradoxes and Provocations in Education: Exploring Sustainable Futures for Children and Youth  Jorunn Spord Borgen and Elin Eriksen Ødegaard Index

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Book SynopsisThe main gaol of this book is to discuss the place and role of video games in contemporary societies and their impact on individual relationships. It analyses how the development of video games is a sign of and a factor in the democratization of modern societies. Judit Vari explores how video games contribute to the moral and political socialization of children and teenagers. The book is structured into two parts. The first explores the methodological, ethical and epistemological implications of Games Studies, and shows how the development of an independent field of research on video games can be analyzed as a sign of democratization. The second part focuses on youth identity experimentations and how video games can contribute to the democratization of social relations. She discusses play inequalities, but also how video games are reconfiguring family and peer relationships, thereby influencing the movement of democratization of societies.Table of ContentsI Playful Trajectories and Experimentations Video Games in the Moral and Political Socialization of Children and Young People  Judit Vari Abstract Keywords  Introduction  Part 1. Methodological, Ethical, and Epistemological Challenges  Part 2. Video Games: Experiences of Self Here and Elsewhere  Conclusion  Bibliographical References

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Book SynopsisIn this commentary, Sabine Witting provides a comprehensive analysis of the Second Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. This commentary critically reflects on the impact of globalisation, digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic on the nature, scope and meaning of the Second Optional Protocol since its adoption on 25 May 2000. Apart from analysing a broad range of topics, from online child sexual abuse to surrogacy and ‘voluntourism’, this commentary highlights the importance of establishing child-friendly transnational collaboration mechanisms, conceptualised through a holistic gender lens and taking into consideration the online-offline nexus of violence against children and relevant Global North-Global South dynamics.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Author Biography Disclaimer Acknowledgments Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography  1 Introduction   1.1 Background   1.2 Impact of Globalisation and Digital Technologies   1.3 Impact of COVID-19   1.4 Cross-Cutting Themes  2 Comparison with Related International Human Rights Standards   2.1 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989   2.2 Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention (‘Budapest Convention’), 2003   2.3 Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (‘Lanzarote Convention’), 2007   2.4 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990   2.5 African Convention on Personal Data Protection and Cyber Security, 2015   2.6 Hague Conventions (1980, 1993, 1996)   2.7 ILO Convention No. 182, 1999  3 Meaning and Scope   3.1 Drafting History and Recent Developments   3.2 Analysis of OPSC Articles  4 >OPSC in Continuous Need of Review in a Globalised, Digitalised and Rapidly Changing World Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHow can human rights for children born outside their national jurisdiction with parents deemed as terrorists be safeguarded? In what ways do children risk being discriminated in their welfare rights in Sweden when treated as invisible part of a family? How can we do research on children’s rights in not just ethically sensitive ways but also with respect for children as rights subjects? And what could be a theory on social justice for children? These are questions discussed in studies from different disciplines concerning children’s international human rights, with a special focus on the realization of the CRC in Sweden.Table of ContentsPreface – Contrasting Perspectives on Child Rights   Rebecca Adami Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction   Children’s Rights from an International Perspective   Laura Lundy   A Children’s Rights Dilemma – Paternalism versus Autonomy   Noam Peleg Part 1 Legal Challenges Regarding the Rights of the Child 1 Children’s Right to Have Rights – on the Importance of Statutory Rights for Swedish Children Living outside the Country   Johanna Schiratzki   A Response to Johanna Schiratzki   Sandra Karlsson 2 Child Rights without Substance? – Swedish Public Welfare and the Invisibility of Children in Economic Support Cases   Pernilla Leviner and Tim Holappa   A Response to Pernilla Leviner and Tim Holappa   Lars Lindblom 3 Children’s Participation in Legal Proceedings – Conditioned by Adult Views of Children’s Capacity and Credibility?   Anna Kaldal   A Response to Anna Kaldal   Linde Lindkvist 4 Societal Unease and the Right to Non-discrimination for Youths with Foreign Background Who Are in Conflict with the Law   Katrin Lainpelto   A Response to Katrin Lainpelto   Rebecca Adami 5 Children’s Right to Health(Care) – in Light of Medical Advancements and Developments in Paediatric Care   Kavot Zillén   A Response to Kavot Zillén   Margareta Aspán Part 2 Conceptualizing the Rights of the Child Political, Ethical, and Moral Dimensions 6 Childism – on Adult Resistance to Children’s Rights   Rebecca Adami   A Response to Rebecca Adami   Katrin Lainpelto 7 Five Problems with Children’s Participation Rights   Linde Lindkvist   A Response to Linde Lindkvist   Anna Kaldal 8 Distributive Justice for Children   Lars Lindblom   A Response to Lars Lindblom   Pernilla Leviner and Tim Holappa 9 Article 31 – the Forgotten Right to Cultural Life and the Arts   Margareta Aspán   A Response to Margareta Aspán   Kavot Zillén 10 Ethnography of Lived Rights – Methodological and Ethical Considerations when Researching Rights with Children   Sandra Karlsson   A Response to Sandra Karlsson   Johanna Schiratzki Index

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Book SynopsisHistorie van de jeugdzorg.- Kinderbescherming.- Jeugdzorg.- Geestelijke gezondheid.- Kinder- en jeugdpsychiatrie.- Stromingen in jeugdzorgland.- Wetenschappelijk onderzoek.- Pedagogische invalshoeken.- De psychodynamische invalshoek.- Gedragsmatige en leergerichte strategieën.- Cliëntgerichte benadering.- Systeemdenken, systeemtherapie en gezinstherapie.- Integratieve psychotherapie.- Oplossingsgerichte hulpverlening.- Sociaal-ecologische analyse.- Gedragsgenetische modellen.- Specifieke doelgroepen.- Epidemiologie van psychopathologie.- Chronisch zieke kinderen.- Problemen op school.- Thuisloze jongeren.- Vluchtelingenkinderen en -gezinnen.- Traumatische gebeurtenissen.- Verwaarlozing en mishandeling.- Seksueel misbruik.- Jeugdprostitutie.- Jeugdcriminaliteit.- Kinderen van verslaafde ouders.- Kinderen van probleemdrinkers.- Verslaafde jongeren.- Kinderen van ouders met psychiatrische problemen.- Kinderen en jongeren met psychiatrische problemen.- Jeugdige delinquenten met psychische stoornissen.

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