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This multi- disciplinary volume provides an innovative approach to children and violence, looking beyond the existing literature that focuses on child soldiers in the ‘Global South.’Harnessing expert contributions from over a dozen countries, the book examines the relationship between children and violence, with a focus on children ensnared in military conflict, embroiled in criminal gangs, and enmeshed in political activism. It analyses how children join fights, how they fight, and what happens to them after fighting officially ends. It addresses cutting- edge issues such as cyberwars, self-defence, intergenerational trauma, gender fluidity, racism and state surveillance. Throughout, the book underscores the need to respect the agency and dignity of children and youth, to build cultures of juvenile rights, and to think critically of the place of the child amid global power politics and decolonisation. Through accessible writing, and the provision of considerable new data, this book supports advocacy work and will enrich teaching and spark further academic research.This book will be of great interest to students of International Law, Human Rights, Childhood Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Post- Conflict Studies, and Security Studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

This multi- disciplinary volume provides an innovative approach to children and violence, looking beyond the existing literature that focuses on child soldiers in the ‘Global South.’Harnessing expert contributions from over a dozen countries, the book examines the relationship between children and violence, with a focus on children ensnared in military conflict, embroiled in criminal gangs, and enmeshed in political activism. It analyses how children join fights, how they fight, and what happens to them after fighting officially ends. It addresses cutting- edge issues such as cyberwars, self-defence, intergenerational trauma, gender fluidity, racism and state surveillance. Throughout, the book underscores the need to respect the agency and dignity of children and youth, to build cultures of juvenile rights, and to think critically of the place of the child amid global power politics and decolonisation. Through accessible writing, and the provision of considerable new data, this book supports advocacy work and will enrich teaching and spark further academic research.This book will be of great interest to students of International Law, Human Rights, Childhood Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Post- Conflict Studies, and Security Studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on rights and their codification. By exploring the relationships between these three concepts, the realities and complexities of children's rights are highlighted. The framework is critical of approaches to children as passive targets of good intentions and aims to disclose how children craft their own conceptions and practices of rights. The contributions offer important insights into new ways of thinking and research within this emerging field.

Esta secuela de ''Crionizados: la Tercera Reanimación'' responde a las preguntas que se presentan al final de ese libro. ''Una inesperada aparición'' continúa siguiendo la vida de un grupo de personas que llegaron al Planeta K851b como embriones crionizados, y que posteriormente fueron criados por robots guardianes. Después de restablecer la civilización humana en el Planeta K851b, el asentamiento de Nueva Múnich ha aumentado su población a varios cientos de personas, una sociedad que es tecnológicamente equivalente a la Tierra de 1950. Cuando un cohete terrestre aterriza en el desierto, los reanimados descubren a dos astronautas congelados. Uno de ellos, una hermosa mujer llamada Anastasia, ha perdido todos los recuerdos de su pasado, incluida su capacidad para hablar. La historia sigue la nueva vida de Anastasia, mientras vuelve a aprender todo desde cero, y eventualmente se verá plagada de preguntas sobre su verdadera identidad en la Tierra. Mientras tanto, Horst, el líder y capitán de la Tercera Reanimación, ahora de 45 años, regresa de la expedición a Nuevo Edén, con la mitad inferior del cuerpo paralizada. Trabajando como director de la compañía farmacéutica de Nueva Múnich, Horst busca desesperadamente una forma de reparar su columna, utilizando las avanzadas capacidades robóticas. Junto a estas dos historias entrelazadas está Chet Gurke, un ex fabricante de encurtidos que se ha convertido en el primer locutor de noticias en la incipiente estación de televisión de Nueva Múnich. Chet, un exitoso hombre de negocios, actúa como un némesis de Horst. Chet tiene una pasión por todas las cosas novedosas... incluida la hermosa Anastasia. Mejor descrito como “ficción con ciencia”, este libro al igual que ''la Tercera Reanimación'', explora la ciencia de una manera pedagógica dentro del contexto de una aventura. Destinado a lectores que disfrutan leyendo sobre ciencia, incluidos aquellos que se inician en este género.

El planeta K851b se encuentra a 26 años luz de la Tierra. En un esfuerzo por salvar a la humanidad de un asteroide que se predice destruirá la Tierra, se enviaron embriones crionizados a este planeta para ser criados por robots. En la Tierra, cuando solo quedan dos semanas antes del impacto del gigantesco asteroide, se descubre un antiguo artefacto en Nuevo México. El misterioso objeto prueba que los antiguos aztecas y mayas sabían de la existencia del planeta K851b. Mientras tanto, en el Planeta K851b, los miembros de "La Tercera Reanimación" de embriones crionizados, ahora tienen sesenta y tantos años. Mientras se encuentran en una misión de campo, ocurre un accidente que los aisla. Esto los lleva a una última aventura científica, descubriendo extraños mundos y nuevas formas de vida mientras luchan por regresar a casa.

This open access edited volume investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes: wherein they are not mere spectators and objects of transformations but instead actively shape them through various social, economic, and political representations. International contributions illuminate the problems that arise when children's rights and participation become a site of contestation and power over who represents whom, what, when, and where. The authors do not provide simple solutions, instead offering an understanding of the fundamental nature of these problems as founded in the application of rights and the nature of representation in modern society. Together, the authors emphasize that child representation must take into account the local and spatial context of how representations of children are discussed, as well as possible discrepancies between local, regional, national, and global processes.