Childrens Rights and the Capability Approach: Challenges and Prospects [Hardcover]

This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific childrens rights into capabilities in settings as different as childrens parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care. It addresses theoretical questions linked to childrens agency and reflexivity, education, the life cycle perspective, child participation, evolving capabilities and citizenship. The volume highlights important issues that have to be taken into account for the implementation of human rights and the development of peoples capabilities. The focus on childrens capabilities along a rights-based approach is an inspiring perspective that researchers and practitioners in the field of human rights would like to deepen.

Foreword - Asher Ben-Arieh.- Introduction - Daniel Stoecklin & Jean-Michel Bonvin.- Chapter 1 Transforming Children's Rights into Real Freedom: A Dialogue between Childrens Rights and the Capability Approach from a Life Cycle Perspective - Mario Biggeri & Ravi Karkara.- Chapter 2 Observing Childrens Capabilities as Agency - Claudio Baraldi & Vittorio Iervese.- Chapter 3 From Evolving Capacities to Evolving Capabilities: Contextualising Childrens Rights - Manfred Liebel.- Chapter 4 Reconstructing childrens concepts: Some theoretical ideas and empirical findings on education and the good life?- Sabine Andresen & Katharina Gerarts.- Chapter 5 Childrens Councils implementation: a path toward recognition? - Dominique Golay & Dominique Malatesta.- Chapter 6 Cross-fertilizing childrens rights and the capability approach. The example of the right to be heard in organized leisure - Daniel Stoecklin & Jean-Michel Bonvin.- Chapter 7 The theoretical orthodoxy of childrens and youth agency and its contradictions: moving from normative thresholds to a situated assessment of childrens and youth - Stephan Dahmen.- Chapter 8 Childrens rights and the capabl#J