The Politics of Children’s Rights and Representation

• Main Authors: Sandin, Bengt, Josefsson, Jonathan, Hanson, Karl, Balagopalan, Sarada
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023; Springer International Publishing AG; Palgrave Macmillan
• Edition: 1
• Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth
• Subjects: Central / national / federal government; Central / national / federal government policies; Childhood experience; Children; Children's Representation; Children's Rights; Children's Voice; Crime and criminology; criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVQ Offenders::JKVQ2 Juvenile offenders; Education; JKVQ2 Juvenile offenders; Offenders; Participation; Political science and theory; Politics and government; Representation; Representative government and representation; Self-representation; Social services and welfare, criminology; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Sociology: family and relationships; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies; Transformation; Youth activism; Youth Justice; Youth Participation; Youth Representation
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04480-9
• ISBN: 9783031044809; 3031044800; 3031044797; 9783031044793

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.