The field of children’s rights studies is well established and largely dominated by a top-down approach that considers these rights as objective standards requiring implementation in practice or policy. This book argues for a critical perspective which views the area as contested terrain with conflicting normative foundations and traditions. The collection brings together established and rising scholars whose work has been central to not only challenging mainstream children’s rights discourses but also provides alternative pathways to conceptualizing children’s rights. It moves beyond critiques of these dominant discourses and sets out the emerging paradigm of Critical Children’s Rights Studies drawing on contexts in both the Global North and Global South. It proposes new pathways and subjects these to scrutiny, illuminating the importance of contextual situatedness and acknowledging the need to consider researchers’ own positionality when outlining their stance on children’s rights.Containing both empirical and theoretical scholarship, the book will be an essential resource for students, academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the multidisciplinary areas of childhood studies, children’s rights studies and international human rights.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning—or intensification of—political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children’s rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning—or intensification of—political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children’s rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration. 

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning—or intensification of—political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children’s rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration.

Para el sentido común, pero también para buena parte de los estudios académicos, la ciudadanía gira en torno al problema de la inclusión a través del principio de igualdad ante la ley. El despliegue histórico de la ciudadanía suele imaginarse como un proceso progresivo en el cual se van ampliando derechos. Sin embargo, esas imágenes sobre su naturaleza y sobre su transformación histórica son materia de debate. Por eso, en este libro el problema de la exclusión ocupa el primer plano.La ciudadanía como forma de acceder al debate público, a la igualdad y a las reglas del juego en democracia, horizonte común en la diversidad y existencia política, se mueve en el plano de ese centro complejo que mantiene unida una pluralidad en conflicto. El carácter controversial de las resonancias y evocaciones del término "ciudadanía" nos alienta a pensar las fuerzas de las luchas sociales, entre el derrumbe de la gramática estadocéntrica y la emergencia lenta de nuevas formas de la vida en común.

Llegar a ser de otro modo ofrece una investigación etnográfica y teórica original sobre cómo niñas, niños y jóvenes en barrios marginados de la Argentina imaginan, transitan y disputan el futuro en contextos marcados por la desigualdad estructural, la degradación ambiental y el abandono institucional. Articulando los estudios críticos sobre la infancia, la ética feminista del cuidado y los estudios temporales neo-materialistas, la autora replantea la relación entre infancia y futuridad desde una perspectiva del Sur Global.A partir de un extenso trabajo de campo cualitativo y de co-investigación participativa, se revela aquí cómo los imaginarios temporales infantiles se configuran no solo por la precariedad material, sino también por la cultura pop global, el sentido común distópico y las economías morales locales.En estas páginas se muestra que, lejos de ser receptoras pasivas de los discursos estatales y del desarrollo, las infancias producen activamente "futuridades": proyecciones híbridas y situadas que combinan esperanza, miedo y crítica.

The field of children’s rights studies is well established and largely dominated by a top-down approach that considers these rights as objective standards requiring implementation in practice or policy. This book argues for a critical perspective which views the area as contested terrain with conflicting normative foundations and traditions. The collection brings together established and rising scholars whose work has been central to not only challenging mainstream children’s rights discourses but also provides alternative pathways to conceptualizing children’s rights. It moves beyond critiques of these dominant discourses and sets out the emerging paradigm of Critical Children’s Rights Studies drawing on contexts in both the Global North and Global South. It proposes new pathways and subjects these to scrutiny, illuminating the importance of contextual situatedness and acknowledging the need to consider researchers’ own positionality when outlining their stance on children’s rights.Containing both empirical and theoretical scholarship, the book will be an essential resource for students, academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the multidisciplinary areas of childhood studies, children’s rights studies and international human rights.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning—or intensification of—political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children’s rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning—or intensification of—political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children’s rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration. 

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning—or intensification of—political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children’s rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration.

Para el sentido común, pero también para buena parte de los estudios académicos, la ciudadanía gira en torno al problema de la inclusión a través del principio de igualdad ante la ley. El despliegue histórico de la ciudadanía suele imaginarse como un proceso progresivo en el cual se van ampliando derechos. Sin embargo, esas imágenes sobre su naturaleza y sobre su transformación histórica son materia de debate. Por eso, en este libro el problema de la exclusión ocupa el primer plano.La ciudadanía como forma de acceder al debate público, a la igualdad y a las reglas del juego en democracia, horizonte común en la diversidad y existencia política, se mueve en el plano de ese centro complejo que mantiene unida una pluralidad en conflicto. El carácter controversial de las resonancias y evocaciones del término "ciudadanía" nos alienta a pensar las fuerzas de las luchas sociales, entre el derrumbe de la gramática estadocéntrica y la emergencia lenta de nuevas formas de la vida en común.

Llegar a ser de otro modo ofrece una investigación etnográfica y teórica original sobre cómo niñas, niños y jóvenes en barrios marginados de la Argentina imaginan, transitan y disputan el futuro en contextos marcados por la desigualdad estructural, la degradación ambiental y el abandono institucional. Articulando los estudios críticos sobre la infancia, la ética feminista del cuidado y los estudios temporales neo-materialistas, la autora replantea la relación entre infancia y futuridad desde una perspectiva del Sur Global.A partir de un extenso trabajo de campo cualitativo y de co-investigación participativa, se revela aquí cómo los imaginarios temporales infantiles se configuran no solo por la precariedad material, sino también por la cultura pop global, el sentido común distópico y las economías morales locales.En estas páginas se muestra que, lejos de ser receptoras pasivas de los discursos estatales y del desarrollo, las infancias producen activamente "futuridades": proyecciones híbridas y situadas que combinan esperanza, miedo y crítica.