Politics, Citizenship and Rights [Hardcover]

This volume explores the political geographies of children and young people and aims to cement this research area within human geography and beyond. Indeed, the policies that specifically target young individuals and groups, and the politics in the everyday lives of children and youth across all scalar dimensions deserve broad attention. The book is structured in four sections with specific focus on the spatialities of the rights of the child, children and young peoples agency in politics, youthful practice as political resistance, and active youth citizenship. In the 28 chapters, a total of 43 authors based in 14 different countries explicate how issues of youthful citizenship, childrens rights, and children and young people's political agencies cross disciplinary, methodological and theoretical boundaries, with notable geographical variation. Particular attention falls on children and young peoples active roles in different kinds of political situations, environments, processes, and practices. The volume also emphasises that there is scope for future research, not least because of the shifting (geo)political landscapes across the globe.

1. Defining Childrens Rights to Work and Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tensions and Challenges in Policy and Practice.- 2. Privatized Rights, Segregated Childhoods: A Critical Analysis of Neoliberal Education Policy in India.- 3. Creating Spaces to Care: Childrens Rights and Food Practices in Residential Care.- 4. Making Space for Listening to Children in Ireland: State Obligations, Childrens Voices, and Meaningful Opportunities in Education.- 5. Paradoxical Moments in Childrens Contemporary LiveslÃ*