Critical Children's Rights Studies

Critical Childrenâs Rights Studies: an introduction 1. Am I a critical childrenâs rights researcher? A reflexive analysis of the adaptive model of childhood 2. Childrenâs liberation: a critical return to the radical work of Shulamith Firestone 3. Children's rights as counter-rights: how the paternalism of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child can be countered 4. Childrenâs search for equality: between the legal and the political 5. Childrenâs rights from a childist perspective: theorizing social empowerment 6. Childrenâs rights and the future 7. Recasting childrenâs rights as relational, circular, and interdependent 8. Destabilizing images of the competent adult vs. the incompetent child in dominant childrenâs rights discourses through the lens of Akan notions of personhood and social relations 9. Those afraid of gender and childhood: anti-gender attacks against Judith Butler in Brazil 10.Child, early and forced marriage from a critical childrenâs rights perspective 11. Child rights regimes and the political economy of children and childhood: a historical perspective of time in interpreting social change 12. The hidden histories of childrenâs rights 13. Historicizing rights subjectivities in post-colonial contexts: the right to education and the deregulation of child labour in India 14. The social construction of childrenâs rights: origins of, and developments in, the childrenâs rights movement in Flanders 15. Strategic uses and redefinitions of children's rights: violence against children in Argentina and Brazil 16. Beyond implementation: a critical childrenâs rights-based approach to the experiences of neurodiverse justice-involved youth 17. A critical perspective on childrenâs right to play 18. Childrenâs rights implementation as a lived practice: an ethnography of implementation in India and its potential for critical childrenâs rights studies 19. Critique after inclusion: three pathways towards a critical study of childrenâs rights Conclusion