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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 comun, pero tambien para buena parte de los estudios academicos, la ciudadania gira en torno al problema de la inclusion a traves del principio de igualdad ante la ley. El despliegue historico de la ciudadania suele imaginarse como un proceso progresivo en el cual se van ampliando derechos. Sin embargo, esas imagenes sobre su naturaleza y sobre su transformacion historica son materia de debate. Por eso, en este libro el problema de la exclusion ocupa el primer plano. La ciudadania como forma de acceder al debate publico, a la igualdad y a las reglas del juego en democracia, horizonte comun en la diversidad y existencia politica, se mueve en el plano de ese centro complejo que mantiene unida una pluralidad en conflicto. El caracter controversial de las resonancias y evocaciones del termino "e;ciudadania"e; nos alienta a pensar las fuerzas de las luchas sociales, entre el derrumbe de la gramatica estadocentrica y la emergencia lenta de nuevas formas de la vida en comun.

Llegar a ser de otro modo ofrece una investigacion etnografica y teorica original sobre como ninas, ninos y jovenes en barrios marginados de la Argentina imaginan, transitan y disputan el futuro en contextos marcados por la desigualdad estructural, la degradacion ambiental y el abandono institucional. Articulando los estudios criticos sobre la infancia, la etica feminista del cuidado y los estudios temporales neo-materialistas, la autora replantea la relacion entre infancia y futuridad desde una perspectiva del Sur Global. A partir de un extenso trabajo de campo cualitativo y de co-investigacion participativa, se revela aqui como los imaginarios temporales infantiles se configuran no solo por la precariedad material, sino tambien por la cultura pop global, el sentido comun distopico y las economias morales locales. En estas paginas se muestra que, lejos de ser receptoras pasivas de los discursos estatales y del desarrollo, las infancias producen activamente "e;futuridades"e;: proyecciones hibridas y situadas que combinan esperanza, miedo y critica.