South American Childhoods: Neoliberalisation and Children?s Rights since the 1990s (Studies in Childhood and Youth)

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. 

Ana Vergara del Solar is Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, Universidad de Santiago, Chile. 

Valeria Llobet is Professor in the School of Humanities, Universidad de San Martin, Argentina. She is also a researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina. 

Maria Letícia Nascimento is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of São Paulo, Brazil.