Policy Press

Childhoods of the Global South

Children’s Rights and Resistance

By Manfred Liebel With Rebecca Budde, Urszula Markowska-Manista and Philip Meade

Published

Sep 14, 2023

Page count

264 pages

ISBN

978-1447370413

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Sep 14, 2023

Page count

264 pages

ISBN

978-1447370406

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Sep 14, 2023

Page count

264 pages

ISBN

978-1447370420

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Sep 14, 2023

Page count

264 pages

ISBN

978-1447370420

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press
Childhoods of the Global South

Children 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.

Liebel and colleagues give insights into the political lives of children and demonstrate ways in which the concept of children’s rights can be made meaningful at the grassroots level. Looking to the future, they consider how collaborative research with children can counteract their marginalization and oppression in society.

Introduction

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