Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vandenhole, Wouter; Lembrechts, Sara; Reynaert, Didier; Desmet, Ellen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) children's rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies. This handbook offers an engaging overview of the contemporary research landscape for those people involved in the theory and practice of children's rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317669722
• Artikelnr.: 42554561

Autorenporträt

Wouter Vandenhole holds the UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights - a joint venture of the University of Antwerp and UNICEF Belgium - at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is the spokesperson of the Law and Development Research Group and chairs the European Research Networking Programme GLOTHRO. He has published widely on economic, social and cultural rights, children's rights and transnational human rights obligations and is a founding member of the Flemish Children's Rights Knowledge Centre and co-convener of the international interdisciplinary course on children's rights. Ellen Desmet is a post-doctoral fellow at the Law and Development Research Group of the University of Antwerp and the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University (Belgium). Before, she was a research and policy staff member at the Children's Rights Knowledge Centre, and taught anthropology of law at the University of Leuven. Didier Reynaert is a lecturer in social work at the Faculty of Education Health and Social work of the University College Ghent, he is involved in several research projects in the field of child and youth policy and children's rights. He is member of the board of the Flemish Children's Rights Knowledge Centre. Previously, he worked for the Flemish Children's Rights Coalition, the Child Legal Centre and as a civil servant at the Ministry of the Flemish Community on youth protection. Sara Lembrechts is fulltime staff member at the Children's Rights Knowledge Centre (KeKi), where she is responsible for the collection and dissemination of children's rights research, as well as for policy advice to the Flemish government.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A critical approach to children's rights
Didier Reynaert
Ellen Desmet
Sara Lembrechts and Wouter Vandenhole Part 1. Disciplinary perspectives 2. Children's rights from a legal perspective: Children's rights law
Wouter Vandenhole 3. The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Reflections from a historical
social policy and educational perspective
Eugeen Verhellen 4. Children's rights and childhood studies: From living apart together to a happy marriage
Bruno Vanobbergen 5. Children's rights and the sociology of childhood
Berry Mayall 6. Children's rights from a social work perspective: Towards a lifeworld orientation
Didier Reynaert and Rudi Roose 7. Children's rights from an anthropological perspective: Critiques
resistances and powers
Geraldine André 8. Children's rights from a critical geographic perspective
Stuart Aitken 9. Children's rights and gender studies: Gender
intersectionality and the ethics of care
Katrien De Graeve 10. Children's rights and citizenship studies: Re-theorising child citizenship through transdisciplinarity from the local to the global
Richard Mitchell Part 2. Selected themes at the intersection of the global and the local 11. Children and young people's participation
Kay Tisdall 12. Education and children's rights
Ann Quennerstedt 13. Health and children's rights
Ursulla Kilkelly 14. Juvenile justice from a children's rights perspective
Ton Liefaard 15. The human rights of children in the context of formal alternative care
Nigel Cantwell 16. Violence against children
Gertrud Lenzer 17. Female genital mutilation in Europe from a children's rights perspective
Els Leye and Annemarie Middelburg 18. Child labour
working children and children's rights
Karl Hanson
Diana Volonakis and Mohammed Al-Rozzi 19. The human rights of children in the context of international migration
Pablo Ceriani Cernadas 20. Child poverty in the context of global social development
Francine Mestrum 21. Indigenous children's rights: Opportunities in appropriation and transformation
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen 22. Natural resource exploitation and children's rights
Ellen Desmet and José Aylwin 23. Conclusions: Towards a field of critical children's rights studies
Ellen Desmet
Sara Lembrechts
Didier Reynaert and Wouter Vandenhole.