Childhoods of the Global South

Manfred Liebel was founder and Director of the MA Childhood Studies and Children's Rights at the Free University of Berlin and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 2007–2021.Rebecca Budde is a cultural scientist and was Academic Coordinator of the MA Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights at the Free University of Berlin and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 2007–2021.Urszula Markowska-Manista is Researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw and was Co-director of the MA Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights at the Free University of Berlin and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 2016–2021.Philip Meade is a social pedagogue and Lecturer of the MA Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights at the Free University of Berlin and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. With Manfred Liebel, he is co-founder of the ProNATs Association to strengthen the rights of children and youth.

• IntroductionPart 1: Children’s Rights From Below1. Submission and Humiliation of Childhoods From a Decolonial Perspective2. Children’s Rights Movements and the Hidden History of Children’s Rights3. 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 Resistance6. Children’s Rights and Political Subjectivities7. Flexible Adaptation or Resistance? Paradoxes and Pitfalls of Discourses on Resilience in Children8. Children’s Protagonism. Considerations for Its Reconceptualization9. ‘Not About Us, but With Us!’ Perspectives of Insurgent Research With Children in Light of Their RightsEpilogue