Discovering Childhood in International Relations

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Discovering Childhood in International Relations

Statement of responsibility

edited by J. Marshall Beier

Contributor

• Beier, J. Marshall

Editor

• Beier, J. Marshall

Subject

• Comparative politics
• Economic development
• International relations
• Youth in development
• Youth—Social life and customs

Language

eng

Summary

This book examines how and why, in the context of International Relations, children’s subjecthood has all too often been relegated to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations: as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all typically with the accent on the Global South. Challenging us to think critically about childhood as a technology of global governance, the authors explore alternative ways of finding children and their agency in a more central position in IR, in terms of various forms of children’s activism, children and climate change, children and security, children and resilience, and in their inevitable role in governing the future. Focusing on the problems, pitfalls, promises, and prospects of addressing children and childhoods in International Relations, this book places children more squarely in the purview of political subjecthood and hence more centrally in IR. Marshall Beier is a Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.--

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Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Springer eBooks.