Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child : The Myth of a Happy Childhood (Routledge Studies in Human Rights)

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 through the intersections of racist, sexist, and ableist discrimination. The book further offers scholars a new perspective when studying structural forms of discrimination and oppression against children and provides professionals with a new vocabulary on prejudice targeting children when assessing theory, policy, and praxis on ‘child-friendly’ and ‘child-centered’ initiatives that overlook the need to protect children against discrimination. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, child and youth studies, education, prejudice studies, the United Nations and child law, and more broadly to sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at (http://www.taylorfrancis.com) http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license . Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Acronyms and Abbreviations Chapter 1: Critical child rights theory: Power, discrimination, and epistemic injustice 1.1: Power and legislation 1.2: To address discrimination of children’s rights 1.3: The Convention on the Rights of the Child and epistemic injustice Notes References Chapter 2: Childism: To study the unbearable in the everyday 2.1: Children’s rights are human rights 2.2: ‘Evolving capacities’: A limiting clause? 2.3: The ‘immature child’: As defined by adults Notes References Chapter 3: Childism and racism intersecting: On a perceived natural inequality 3.1: Historical invisibility of children in the Civil Rights Movement 3.2: Addressing the heterogeneity of ‘children’ 3.3: Social inequality of ‘children of color’ cast as a ‘natural’ inequality 3.4: Systemic racism and childism Notes References Chapter 4: Childism and sexism intersecting: On emancipation versus protection 4.1: Troubling the de-politicizationof domestic violence and sexual abuse 4.2: Sexist and childist language 4.3: Trustworthiness and stereotyping 4.4: Unjustified discrimination References Chapter 5: Childism and ableism intersecting: On a perceived lack of abilities 5.1: ‘Reasonable’ adjustments? 5.2: Ableist normativity 5.3: Cultural, social, and political aspects of ‘normativity’ 5.4: Power and voice in classifications during childhood Notes References Chapter 6: Challenging adultism 6.1: ‘The best interests of the child’: According to adults? 6.2: ‘The right to be heard’: From tokenism to representation Notes References Chapter 7: Justice in childhood 7.1: ‘Equality and non-discrimination’: On child equity 7.2: ‘The right to survival and development’: On intergenerational justice Notes References Chapter 8: Discussion: Anti-childistpolicy and practice 8.1: No legal history 8.2: Intersectional readings of key human rights conventions 8.3: Intersectional budget analysis: Age, race, gender, and disability Notes References Glossary Index