1. Introduction: Children, childhoods, and security studies: an introduction
J. Marshall Beier
2. ‘Children and armed conflict’ and the field of security studies
Cecilia Jacob
3. The state of play: securities of childhood – insecurities of children
Helen Brocklehurst
4. Resilience is its own resistance: the place of children in post-conflict settlement
Alison M. S. Watson
5. Children, civilianhood, and humanitarian securitization
Lorraine Macmillan
6. Telling geopolitical tales: temporality, rationality, and the ‘childish’ in the ongoing war for the Falklands-Malvinas Islands
Victoria M. Basham
7. Children, violence, and social exclusion: negotiation of everyday insecurity in a Colombian barrio
Helen Berents
8. Shifting the Burden: Childhoods, Resilience, Subjecthood
J. Marshall Beier
Biography
J. Marshall Beier is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. His teaching and research centers on issues of political subjecthood with regard to childhood, indigeneity, and the discursive/semiotic production of security more broadly. His recent publications include The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South (2011), Canadian Foreign Policy in Critical Perspective (2010), Indigenous Diplomacies (2009) and International Relations in Uncommon Places: Indigeneity, Cosmology, and the Limits of International Theory (2005).
