1st Edition
Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child The Myth of a Happy Childhood
By Rebecca Adami
Copyright 2025
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children.
It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and in what ways violations against children can be analyzed... Read more
1. Critical child rights theory: Power, discrimination and epistemic injustice
2. Childism: To study the unbearable in the everyday
3. Childism and racism intersecting
4. Chidlism and sexism intersecting
5. Childism and ableism intersecting
6. Challenging adultism
7. Justice in childhood
8. Discussion: Anti-childist policy and pratice
Biography
Rebecca Adami is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Research Associate at SOAS University of London, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, United Kingdom.
