Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy

"Arguing for a pro-democratic approach in authoritarian times, this book challenges the focus on age in identifying children in child rights. It argues that, adopting a monist construction of child identity artificially separates the law from reality, potentially foreclosing democratic deliberative agency"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Child and Human Rights: The Birth of the Child Rights Regime; 2. The Monist Construction of the Child: Without Mind or Body; 3. The Complex Intersectionality of the Child; 4. The Child Heard but Unable to Speak; 5. The Child in the Child Rights Movement; 6. The Child in the Exception; 7. The Monist Pull of Universalism; 8. The Monist Child Rights Identity and Universal Positivism; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Maria Grahn-Farley is Professor of Law at the University of Gothenburg. She was one of the first children in the world recruited by Save the Children, Sweden, to participate in building an international child rights movement in anticipation of the adoption in 1989 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Grahn-Farley is a Harvard Law School graduate, and has taught child rights and human rights for over 20 years, in the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom. She is the coordinator of Human Rights Justification (HRJust), a Horizon Europe research and innovation consortium funded by the European Union.

Summary

Arguing for a pro-democratic approach in authoritarian times, this book challenges the focus on age in identifying children in child rights. It argues that, adopting a monist construction of child identity artificially separates the law from reality, potentially foreclosing democratic deliberative agency.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Grahn-Farley, Maria (Goeteborgs Universitet Grahn-Farley, Maria (Goteborgs Universitet Grahn-Farley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2024
• EAN: 9781009366960
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936696-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law & society, Relating to childhood, Law and society, sociology of law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law