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Book SynopsisThis edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights into the ways children’s lives figure as terrains of engagement, contestation, ambivalence, resistance, and reproduction of militarisms. The first three chapters challenge dominant ontologies that prefigure childhood in particular ways. These include who counts as a child worthy of protection, questions of voice and participation, and the diminution of agency. The chapters in the second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function to militarize children’s lives, including in but not limited to advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North. The third and final section includes investigations that foreground questions of responsibility to children. Here, contributors assess, among other things, resilience-building, the exigencies of protection, and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting children.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak
Chapter 1: “Child Civilians: Rethinking the Concept of Child Protection in Armed Conflict,” VanessaBramwell
Chapter 2: “Voices of Ex-Child Soldiers from the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Public andPrivate Narratives,” Dalibor Savić, Nevenko Vranješ, and Aleksandar Janković
Chapter 3: “‘I have the Right’: Examining the Role of Children in the #DimeLaVerdad Campaign,”Diana García Gómez
Chapter 4: “Children, Internationalism, and Armistice Commemoration in Britain, 1919-1939,”Susannah Wright
Chapter 5: “Social Change, Political Education, and Children: The Practice of Everyday Militarism inChina (1949-1953),” Haolan Zheng
Chapter 6: “Primary Education and The French Army during the Algerian War,” Brooke Durham
Chapter 7: “‘We Used to Kill all Greeks with Our Wooden Swords’,” Guldeniz Kibris
Chapter 8: “Militarizing Kinship in Ukraine: An Analysis of Ukraine’s ‘Strategy for the NationalPatriotic Education of Children and Youth’,” Vita Yakovlyeva
Chapter 9: “More than a Victim: Childhood Resilience in Kashmir in Malik Sajad’s Munnu,” Cito Joyand Suniti Madaan
Chapter 10: “Children and Childhood on the Borderland of Desired Peace and Undesired War - A Case ofUkraine,” Urszula Markowska-Manista and Oksana Koshulko
Chapter 11: “Raising the Empire’s Children? Everyday Insecurities and Parenting the Privileged inAmerica,” Jennifer Riggan
Chapter 12: “The Military as a Vehicle for Self-Improvement and Fulfilment for Young People in theUK,” Emma Sangster and Rhianna Louise
Chapter 13: “Production of ‘Safe’ Spaces for Tribal Children, and the Armed Conflict of Bastar, India,”Rashimi Kumari
