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Book SynopsisChildren in the Global South continue to be affected by social disadvantage in our unequal post-colonial world order. With a focus on working-class children in Latin America, this book explores the challenges of promoting children's rights in a context of decolonization.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Children’s Rights From Below 1. Submission and Humiliation of Childhoods From a Decolonial Perspective 2. Children’s Rights Movements and the Hidden History of Children’s Rights 3. Children’s Rights Studies in Search of an Own Profile (with Rebecca Budde) 4. Ethical Challenges of Research With Children of the Global South (with Urszula Markowska-Manista) 5. Adultism, Children’s Political Participation and Voting Rights (with Philip Meade) Part 2: Children in Resistance 6. Children’s Rights and Political Subjectivities 7. Flexible Adaptation or Resistance? Paradoxes and Pitfalls of Discourses on Resilience in Children 8. Children’s Protagonism. Considerations for Its Reconceptualization 9. ‘Not About Us, but With Us!’ Perspectives of Insurgent Research With Children in Light of Their Rights Epilogue
