Children's rights and power: charging up for a new century
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Main Author: John, Mary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Jessica Kingsley 2003
Series:Children in charge series 9
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-292) and indexes
Children's Rights and Power: Charging Up for a New Century; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I Powerful People; Chapter 1 'As If': Multiple Representations of the Person; Chapter 2 The Fourth 'P': The Issue of Power; Part II Children and the Economy; Chapter 3 Counting; Chapter 4 Spending: 'Cool' Consumers: Purchasers or Purchased?; Part III Enduring and Surviving; Chapter 5 Whatever Makes You Stronger ... ; Chapter 6 Warriors and Workers; Part IV Children in Charge; Chapter 7 Children at Large: Agency, Participation, Politics and Democracy; Chapter 8 Young Citizens in Action
Why have children been excluded from discussions of the changing nature of power, and why are they invisible in national and international statistics? Taking a global perspective, Mary John considers how children learn about power, being powerful and the transformation of power relationships. Arguing that children are rarely included in debates on social accountability, freedom and autonomy and are excluded from statistics, she compares the situation of children to that of other powerless minority groups, 'silenced' because of their lack of economic force. While many books on children's rights
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (304 p.)
ISBN:1417501200
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1853026581
185302659X
9781417501205
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