PUBLISHED BOOKSCRITICAL CHILD RIGHTS THEORY
THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Legal, political and ethical challenges to realise children's rights.
CHILDISM AND INTERSECTIONALITY
CHILDISM AND INTERSECTIONALITY
On discrimination against children.
INTERVIEW QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDONInterview about the book, Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child
Children constitute more than a third of the world’s population and ‘children’ as a heterogenous group consists of all other marginalised groups. Nonetheless, theorizations on the limits of social justice generally do not recognise children’s additional marginalisation through age-based power structures.
UNHCR SWISSWebinaire: L’intérêt supérieur des enfants réfugiés dans la pratique
A l'occasion de la Journée mondiale de l'enfance, le HCR vous invite à un webinaire sur l'évaluation de l'intérêt supérieur de l'enfant dans la pratique. Différent-e-s expert-e-s feront des présentations sur les aspects centraux de l'examen de l'intérêt supérieur des enfants issus de la fuite.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Discourses of Childism: How COVID-19 Has Unveiled Prejudice, Discrimination and Social Injustice against Children in the Everyday
Do children suffer from discriminatory structures in society and how can issues of social injustice against children be conceptulaized and studied?
Enabling multiligualism or disabling multilinguals? Interrograting linguistic discrimination in Swedish preschool policy
In this paper we conduct a poststructural discourse analysis inspired by Carol Baccho's 'What's the problem represented to be' (WRP) approach.
Childism: On adult resistance against children’s rights
The aim of this chapter is to explore resistance to the realization of children's international human rights by arguing that these can be recongiszed as examples of age-based discrimination against children that disadvantage children,...
The Praxis of Ethics and Justice in Human Rights Learning: Examining the Limits of Progressive Education
This paper explores several challenges with progressive education and, specifically, of human rights education, through the work of Arendt and Dewey on the notions of responsibility and children's human rights.
ARTICLEChildism: How discrimination against children plays out in law
ARTICLECalling children 'vectors' during COVID-19 is turning into discrimination
Rebecca Adami, Associate Professor at the Department of Education, Stockholm University
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