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Book SynopsisThis open access edited volume investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes: wherein they are not mere spectators and objects of transformations but instead actively shape them through various social, economic, and political representations. International contributions illuminate the problems that arise when children's rights and participation become a site of contestation and power over who represents whom, what, when, and where. The authors do not provide simple solutions, instead offering an understanding of the fundamental nature of these problems as founded in the application of rights and the nature of representation in modern society. Together, the authors emphasize that child representation must take into account the local and spatial context of how representations of children are discussed, as well as possible discrepancies between local, regional, national, and global processes.
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Representing children
Jonathan Josefsson, Bengt Sandin, Karl Hanson and Sarada Balagopalan, “Representing children”
Part I. Childhood politics: From rights and participation to representation
Chapter 1. Bengt Sandin, “Recognizing children’s rights: From child protection to children’s human rights - the 1979 Swedish ban on corporal punishment in perspective”
Chapter 2. Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, “Adults in charge: The limits of formal child participatory processes for societal transformation”
Chapter 3. Sarada Balagopalan, “Children’s participation in their right to education: Learning from the Delhi High Court Cases, 1997-2001"
Chapter 4.
Nataliya Tchermalykh, “Representing the child before the court”
Part II. Children’s representation and the international politics of children´s rights
Chapter 5. Edward van Daalen, “‘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. Jana Tabak, “Children without childhood: Representations of the child-soldier as an international emergency”
Chapter 7. Karl Hanson, “Children’s representation in the transnational mirror maze”
Part III. Children’s representation in times of inequalities and injustices
Chapter 8. Didier Reynaert, Nicole Formesyn, Griet Roets, Rudi Roose, “Combatting child poverty in the childhood moratorium: A representational lens on children’s rights”
Chapter 9. Yaw Ofosu-Kusi, “Deliberative disobedience as a strategy for claiming rights and representation in the family: the case of Accra’s street children”
Chapter 10.
Frida Buhre, “Representing youth climate justice activism: Visual rhetoric of the Fridays for Future on Instagram”
Chapter 11. Jonathan Josefsson, “Political strategies of self-representation: The case of young Afghan migrants in Sweden”
Chapter 12. Sana Nakata and Daniel Bray, “Political representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in Australia”
