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Global crises of childhood: rights, justice and the unchildlike child
Author(s) -
Aitken Stuart C.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00015
Subject(s) - indeterminacy (philosophy) , globalization , constitution , social justice , sociology , economic justice , political science , criminology , law , epistemology , philosophy
This paper traces how the notion of childhood changes as part of other social transformations. Globalization and the disillusion of public and private spheres are related to contemporary crises of childhood. Visible working children and child violence are highlighted as examples of unchildlike behaviour that suggests indeterminacy in the constitution of the global child. Issues of children's rights and new forms of justice are raised as potentially liberatory ways of viewing the crisis.