Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child (Routledge Studies in Human Rights) - Hardcover

Adami, Rebecca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 103263619X ISBN 13: 9781032636191

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children.

It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and in what ways violations against children can be analyzed through the intersections of racist, sexist, and ableist discrimination. The book further offers scholars a new perspective when studying structural forms of discrimination and oppression against children and provides professionals with a new vocabulary on prejudice targeting children when assessing theory, policy, and praxis on ‘child-friendly’ and ‘child-centered’ initiatives that overlook the need to protect children against discrimination.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, child and youth studies, education, prejudice studies, the United Nations and child law, and more broadly to sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work.

Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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About the Author

Rebecca Adami is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Research Associate at SOAS University of London, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, United Kingdom.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103263619X
• ISBN 13: 9781032636191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200