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Childhoods of the Global South: Children's Rights and Resistance
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Notes on the authors
Presentation and acknowledgements
Introduction: Colonization of childhoods and identities of resistance
Why and how do I speak of the colonization of childhoods?
Rights from below
Addressing the paradoxes of children's rights
What is the meaning of 'the popular'?
Legacies of colonialism
Approaching popular childhoods
Creating identities of resistance
The content of the book
Part I Children's rights from below
1 Submission and humiliation of childhoods from a decolonial perspective
Introduction
Binary thinking as an ideological basis for humiliation
Humiliation under colonialism
Humiliation under coloniality
Humiliation of 'illegitimate' and 'bastard' children in Latin America
Humiliation of Indigenous and Black children in the United States, Canada and Australia
Humiliating enforcement of children's rights in Africa
Humiliation by benevolence
Decolonization as liberation from humiliation
2 Children's rights movements and the hidden history of children's rights
Introduction
The emergence of children's rights
What are children's rights based on?
Children's rights movements since the beginning of the 20th century
Children's rights movements in the 1970s and 1980s
Today's children's rights movements
For a contextualized understanding of children's rights
Conclusion
3 Children's rights studies in search of its own profile
Introduction
Conflicting aims of children's rights studies
On the legal understanding of children's rights studies
Political implications of children's rights
'Living rights' as a guideline for children's rights studies?
Eurocentrism and decolonization
Children's rights between universalism and cultural relativism
Research and activism
a contradiction?
Conclusion
4 Ethical challenges of research with children of the Global South
Introduction
Global inequalities as a political and ethical problem
Ethical symmetry as a precarious challenge
Is it ethical to give children a voice?
Why childhood studies must be decolonized
Conclusion
5 Adultism, children's political participation and voting rights
Introduction
Adultism and children's rights
Children's political participation and voting rights
Intergenerational justice
Conclusion
Part II Children in resistance
6 Children's rights and political subjectivities
Introduction
Children as subjects of rights
Ambivalences of subject and subjectivity
Optimizing the subject
The resistant subject and political subjectivity
Conclusion
7 Flexible adaptation or resistance? Paradoxes and pitfalls of discourses on resilience in children
Introduction
How the concept of resilience came about and how it is changing
Childhoods of the Global South: Children's Rights and Resistance
Copyright information
Table of Contents
Notes on the authors
Presentation and acknowledgements
Introduction: Colonization of childhoods and identities of resistance
Why and how do I speak of the colonization of childhoods?
Rights from below
Addressing the paradoxes of children's rights
What is the meaning of 'the popular'?
Legacies of colonialism
Approaching popular childhoods
Creating identities of resistance
The content of the book
Part I Children's rights from below
1 Submission and humiliation of childhoods from a decolonial perspective
Introduction
Binary thinking as an ideological basis for humiliation
Humiliation under colonialism
Humiliation under coloniality
Humiliation of 'illegitimate' and 'bastard' children in Latin America
Humiliation of Indigenous and Black children in the United States, Canada and Australia
Humiliating enforcement of children's rights in Africa
Humiliation by benevolence
Decolonization as liberation from humiliation
2 Children's rights movements and the hidden history of children's rights
Introduction
The emergence of children's rights
What are children's rights based on?
Children's rights movements since the beginning of the 20th century
Children's rights movements in the 1970s and 1980s
Today's children's rights movements
For a contextualized understanding of children's rights
Conclusion
3 Children's rights studies in search of its own profile
Introduction
Conflicting aims of children's rights studies
On the legal understanding of children's rights studies
Political implications of children's rights
'Living rights' as a guideline for children's rights studies?
Eurocentrism and decolonization
Children's rights between universalism and cultural relativism
Research and activism
a contradiction?
Conclusion
4 Ethical challenges of research with children of the Global South
Introduction
Global inequalities as a political and ethical problem
Ethical symmetry as a precarious challenge
Is it ethical to give children a voice?
Why childhood studies must be decolonized
Conclusion
5 Adultism, children's political participation and voting rights
Introduction
Adultism and children's rights
Children's political participation and voting rights
Intergenerational justice
Conclusion
Part II Children in resistance
6 Children's rights and political subjectivities
Introduction
Children as subjects of rights
Ambivalences of subject and subjectivity
Optimizing the subject
The resistant subject and political subjectivity
Conclusion
7 Flexible adaptation or resistance? Paradoxes and pitfalls of discourses on resilience in children
Introduction
How the concept of resilience came about and how it is changing