Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development : Living Rights, Social Justice, Translations.

Scholars from a range of different disciplines explore how best to implement children's rights.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanson, Karl
Other Authors: Nieuwenhuys, Olga
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Living rights, social justice, translations; From one to many centres; Living rights; Social justice; Translations; Interrelations and flux; Part I Living rights; 2 Ukugana: 'Informal marriage' and children's rights discourse among rural 'AI DS-orphans' in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Geographies; Terminology; Pathways to 'informal marriage'; Gender, power and relationship; Pathways of children's rights discourse; Girls in ukugana relationships.
  • Weighing up education and relationshipConclusion: ukugana and living rights; 3 Seeing and knowing? Street children's lifeworlds through the camera's lens; Seeing and knowing; Representing visually children's living rights; Lessons from the Kubolo; Conclusion; 4 Interdependent rights and agency: the role of children in collective livelihood strategies in rural Ethiopia; Theoretical debates on children's agency; Gedeo children's social and material world; Rural poverty and children's views on work; Agricultural entrepreneurship; Grounding children's right to work.
  • Interdependent rights: concluding reflectionsAcknowledgements; 5 Young carpet weavers on the rights threshold: protection or practical self-determination?; Introduction; Competent weavers, vulnerable workers; Footloose labour; Weaving careers; Looking beyond the carpet factory; Conclusion; Part II Social justice; 6 Conflicting realities: the Kikuyu childhood ethos and the ethic of the CRC; Kikuyu parents' views of children: a Weberian perspective; The CRC ethic of childhood; Kikuyu ethos and CRC universal ethic.
  • 7 The politics of failure: street children and the circulation of rights discourses in Kolkata (Calcutta), IndiaExisting research on children's rights; Three narrative incidents; Living rights as frictions; Politicizing rights; 8 Malik and his three mothers: AIDS orphans' survival strategies and how children's rights translations hinder them; The dynamics of orphan policy; Local dynamics of orphan support; The politics of NGO intervention; Whose 'best interests?'; Children's approaches to resource provision; Conclusion: translating victims into citizens; Part III Translations.
  • 9 Living history by youth in post-war situationsIntroduction; Research in community organizations; Study of interacting developments in the aftermath of war; Living history; Living rights to living history; Enlivening developmental theory; Conclusion; 10 Inclusive universality and the child-caretaker dynamic; Human rights and cultural and religious diversity: inclusive universality; Children's rights and the child-caretaker dynamic; Dealing with conflicting rights; Three-step model; Step 1: Eliminate fake conflicts; Step 2: Preference for compromise; Step 3: Criteria for prioritization.