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Children, childhoods and global politics / edited by J. Marshall Beier, Helen Berents.

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Though children have never been absent from international studies discourse, they are too often reduced to a few simplistic and unidimensional framings. This book seeks to recover children's agency and to recognise the complex variety of childhoods and the global issues that affect them. Writte...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Beier, J. Marshall (Editor), Berents, Helen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Children > Cross-cultural studies.
Child welfare > International cooperation > Cross-cultural studies.
International relations > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Children and Childhoods in Global Political Perspective
  • Imagined Childhoods
  • 'Anchor Babies' and 'Imposter Children': Childhoods' Representations in Global Migration Politics
  • Creating Inclusive Reconciliation and Reporting Spaces with Children: Valuing Their Stories
  • Stories about Children Born of Violence: Counter-narratives in the Peruvian Truth Commission's Archive and Popular Culture
  • (Un)Recognition of Child Soldiers' Agency in UN Peacekeeping Practice
  • Governed Childhoods
  • Contested Children's and Young People's Political Representation in Global Health
  • The Representative Breakthrough? Children and Youth Representation in the Global Governance of Migration
  • The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict: A Normative Agenda and Children's Agency in Armed Conflict
  • In/visible Subjects: Global Migration Management and the Integration of Refugee Children into Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Alone and on the Move: Unaccompanied Children in UK Parliamentary Debates 2015-2016
  • Pathologies of Child Governance: Safe Harbor Laws and Children Involved in the Sex Trade in the United States
  • Lived Childhoods
  • Childhood, Playing War, and Militarism: Beyond Discourses of Domination/Resistance and Towards an Ethics of Encounter
  • Troubling Girl Power Environmentalism: Indigenous Girls, Climate Change Activism, and a Relational Ethic of Responsibility
  • Children's Intifada: Children as Participants in a Violent Conflict
  • Children's Agency and Co-construction of Everyday Militarism(s): Representations and Realities of War in Ukrainian Children's Art, 2014-2022
  • Centring the Demand for Critical Climate Justice Education
  • Index

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