J. Marshall Beier & Helen Berents 
Children, Childhoods and Global Politics [EPUB ebook] 

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Though children have never been absent from international studies discourse, they are too often reduced to a few simplistic and unidimensional framings. This book seeks to recover children’s agency and to recognize the complex variety of childhoods and the global issues that affect them. Written by an international list of contributors from Europe, Africa, North America, and Australasia, chapters present highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods across global political time and space split into three broad sections: imagined childhoods, governed childhoods, and lived childhoods.

Through its analysis, the book demonstrates how international relations is, somewhat paradoxically, quite deeply invested in a particular rendering of childhood as, primarily, a time of innocence, vulnerability, and incapacity.

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Table of Content

Introduction: Children and Childhoods in Global Political Perspective – J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents

Part 1: Imagined Childhoods

1. ‘Anchor Babies’ and ‘Imposter Children’: Childhoods’ Representations in Global Migration Politics – Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli

2. Creating Inclusive Reconciliation and Reporting Spaces with Children: Valuing Their Stories – Caitlin Mollica

3. Stories about Children Born of Violence: Counternarratives in the Peruvian Truth Commission’s Archive and Popular Culture – Ana Lucia Alonso Soriano

4. (Un)Recognition of Child Soldiers’ Agency in UN Peacekeeping Practice – Dustin Johnson

Part 2: Governed Childhoods

5. Contested Children’s and Young People’s Political Representation in Global Health – Anna Holzscheiter and Laura Pantzerhielm

6. The Representative Breakthrough? Children and Youth Representation in the Global Governance of Migration – Jonathan Josefsson

7. The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict: A Normative Agenda and Children’s Agency in Armed Conflict – Vanessa Bramwell

8. In/visible Subjects: Global Migration Management and the Integration of Refugee Children into Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Alebachew K. Haybano and Jennifer Riggan

9. Alone and on the Move: Unaccompanied Children in UK Parliamentary Debates 2015–2016 – Lesley Pruitt and Antje Missbach

10. Pathologies of Child Governance: Safe Harbor Laws and Children Involved in the Sex Trade in the United States – Robyn Linde

Part 3: Lived Childhoods

11. Childhood, Playing War, and Militarism: Beyond Discourses of Domination/ Resistance and Towards an Ethics of Encounter – Sean Carter and Tara Woodyer

12. Troubling Girl Power Environmentalism: Indigenous Girls, Climate Change Activism, and a Relational Ethic of Responsibility – Lindsay Robinson

13. Children’s Intifada: Children as Participants in a Violent Conflict – Timea Spitka

14. Children’s Agency and Co-construction of Everyday Militarism(s): Representations and Realities of War in Ukrainian Children’s Art, 2014–2022 – Kristina Hook and Iuliia Hoban

15. Centring the Demand for Critical Climate Justice Education – Bennett Collins and Ali Watson

About the author

Helen Berents is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Griffith University, Australia.

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