Description
Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) children窶冱 rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies.
This handbook offers an engaging overview of the contemporary research landscape for those people in the theory and practice of children窶冱 rights. The volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to children窶冱 rights, as well as key thematic issues in children窶冱 rights at the intersection of global and local concerns. The main approaches and topics within the volume are:
窶｢ Law, social work, and the sociology of childhood and anthropology
窶｢ Geography, childhood studies, gender studies and citizenship studies
窶｢ Participation, education and health
窶｢ Juvenile justice and alternative care
窶｢ Violence against children and female genital mutilation
窶｢ Child labour, working children and child poverty
窶｢ Migration, indigenous children and resource exploitation
The specially commissioned chapters have been written by renowned scholars and researchers and come together to provide a critical and invaluable guide to the challenges and dilemmas currently facing children窶冱 rights.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: A critical approach to children窶冱 rights, Didier Reynaert, Ellen Desmet, Sara Lembrechts and Wouter Vandenhole Part 1. Disciplinary perspectives 2. Children窶冱 rights from a legal perspective: Children窶冱 rights law, Wouter Vandenhole 3. The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Reflections from a historical, social policy and educational perspective, Eugeen Verhellen 4. Children窶冱 rights and childhood studies: From living apart together to a happy marriage, Bruno Vanobbergen 5. Children窶冱 rights and the sociology of childhood, Berry Mayall 6. Children窶冱 rights from a social work perspective: Towards a lifeworld orientation, Didier Reynaert and Rudi Roose 7. Children窶冱 rights from an anthropological perspective: Critiques, resistances and powers, Geraldine André 8. Children窶冱 rights from a critical geographic perspective, Stuart Aitken 9. Children窶冱 rights and gender studies: Gender, intersectionality and the ethics of care, Katrien De Graeve 10. Children窶冱 rights and citizenship studies: Re-theorising child citizenship through transdisciplinarity from the local to the global, Richard Mitchell Part 2. Selected themes at the intersection of the global and the local 11. Children and young people窶冱 participation, Kay Tisdall 12. Education and children窶冱 rights, Ann Quennerstedt 13. Health and children窶冱 rights, Ursulla Kilkelly 14. Juvenile justice from a children窶冱 rights perspective, Ton Liefaard 15. The human rights of children in the context of formal alternative care, Nigel Cantwell 16. Violence against children, Gertrud Lenzer 17. Female genital mutilation in Europe from a children窶冱 rights perspective, Els Leye and Annemarie Middelburg 18. Child labour, working children and children窶冱 rights, Karl Hanson, Diana Volonakis and Mohammed Al-Rozzi 19. The human rights of children in the context of international migration, Pablo Ceriani Cernadas 20. Child poverty in the context of global social development, Francine Mestrum 21. Indigenous children窶冱 rights: Opportunities in appropriation and transformation, Natasha Blanchet-Cohen 22. Natural resource exploitation and children窶冱 rights, Ellen Desmet and José Aylwin 23. Conclusions: Towards a field of critical children窶冱 rights studies, Ellen Desmet, Sara Lembrechts, Didier Reynaert and Wouter Vandenhole.
