Format:
1 Online-Ressource (265 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781447370437
Content:
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.
Content:
Front Cover -- 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.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781447370406
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781447370413
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781447370406
Language:
English
Author information:
Liebel, Manfred 1940-
