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Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development

Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development Living Rights, Social Justice, Translations

Author: Karl Hanson; Olga Nieuwenhuys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107031517
Published In: December 2012
Format: Hardback , 312 pages
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Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on rights and their codification. By exploring the relationships between these three concepts, the realities and complexities of children's rights are highlighted. The framework is critical of approaches to children as passive targets of good intentions and aims to disclose how children craft their own conceptions and practices of rights. The contributions offer important insights into new ways of thinking and research within this emerging field.

• Introduces an original conceptual framework that will help readers to think innovatively about children's rights in the context of developing societies

• Considers various forms of legal discourse across the developing world

• Combines theoretical insights and empirical research

List of Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	xii
Introduction	1
1 Living rights, social justice, translations Karl Hanson and Olga Nieuwenhuys	3
Part i Living Rights	27
2 Ukugana: ‘Informal marriage’ and children’s rights discourse among rural ‘AIDS-orphans’ in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Patricia C. Henderson	29
3 Seeing and knowing? Street children’s lifeworlds through the camera’s lens Phillip Mizen and Yaw Ofosu-Kusi	48
4 Interdependent rights and agency: the role of children in collective livelihood strategies in rural Ethiopia Tatek Abebe	71
5 Young carpet weavers on the rights threshold: protection or practical self-determination? Tom O’Neill	93
Part ii Social Justice	113
6 Conflicting realities: the Kikuyu childhood ethos and the ethic of the CRC Yvan Droz	115
7 The politics of failure: street children and the circulation of rights discourses in Kolkata (Calcutta), India Sarada Balagopalan	133
8 Malik and his three mothers: AIDS orphans’ survival strategies and how children’s rights translations hinder them Kristen E. Cheney	152
Part iii Translations	173
9 Living history by youth in post-war situations Colette Daiute	175
10 Inclusive universality and the child-caretaker dynamic Eva Brems	199
11 Do children have a right to work? Working children’s movements in the struggle for social justice Manfred Liebel	225
12 Translating working children’s rights into international labour law Karl Hanson and Arne Vandaele	250
Part iv Conclusion	273
13 Children’s rights and social movements: reflections from a cognate field Neil Stammers	275
Index	293