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List of contents
1. Conceptual and theoretical foundations; 2. Casting the first stone: the Israeli legal system, its human rights critics, and their approaches to young Palestinians; 3. The age of governing: young age as a means of control; 4. Boundary governance: amending childhood and separating Palestinians; 5. Stolen childhood: voice, loss, and trauma in human rights reports; 6. Sights of violence: childhood in the visual battlefield; 7. Infantilization and militarism: soldiers as children, children as soldiers; 8. Unsettling children: Israeli law and settlers' childhood.
About the author
Hedi Viterbo is Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University of London. Previously, he was Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at SOAS, University of London, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, and a visiting researcher at Columbia University. Dr Viterbo's previous publications include The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Palestinian Territory (2018) (co-authored with Orna Ben-Naftali and Michael Sfard).
Summary
This book challenges and enriches existing knowledge about law, human rights, and childhood, in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. It is indispensable for scholars and practitioners interested in human rights, international and comparative law, socio-legal studies, childhood studies, military and terrorism studies, and Israel/Palestine.
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'In this groundbreaking book, Hedi Viterbo offers a powerful account of the legal construction of childhood in Israel/Palestine. Drawing on a rich array of previously unexamined sources, and subjecting them to an imaginative interdisciplinary analysis, he sheds new and piercing light on the broader political significance of childhood policy and practice, calling into question many of the dominant assumptions underpinning academic debates both in and beyond Israel/Palestine.' Nicola Lacey, School Professor of Law, Gender, and Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
