Book contents
- Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy
- Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Child and Human Rights
- 2 The Monist Construction of the Child
- 3 The Complex Intersectionality of the Child
- 4 Heard but Unable to Speak
- 5 The Child in the Child Rights Movement
- 6 The Child in the Exception
- 7 The Monist Pull of Universalization
- 8 The Monist Child-Rights Identity and Universal Positivism
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Child in the Child Rights Movement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
- Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy
- Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Child and Human Rights
- 2 The Monist Construction of the Child
- 3 The Complex Intersectionality of the Child
- 4 Heard but Unable to Speak
- 5 The Child in the Child Rights Movement
- 6 The Child in the Exception
- 7 The Monist Pull of Universalization
- 8 The Monist Child-Rights Identity and Universal Positivism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The child rights movement does not have a requirement of being built by children. When it speaks on behalf of children, where does its authority to represent children come from? Who has the legitimacy to demand major social change on behalf of children and between children? How can the child rights movement begin to open up to self-critique and discourse on how not to reproduce social inequalities of, for example, race, class, and gender? And when the child rights movement chooses the efficacy of the CRC over a democratic legal order, how is accountability for such decisions exercised?
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- Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy , pp. 107 - 127Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024