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This volume demonstrates the richness of current research on children and childhood, as well as the need that remains to include children and their childhoods as a focus for mainstream research within the wider discipline of International Relations. In the decade and a half since calling for children to be considered ‘a new site of knowledge’ (Watson 2006) much has changed.
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The author would like to thank Bennett Collins, Meghan Laws, and Oliver Richmond for their comments and ongoing discussions regarding various aspects of the points made in this chapter that have both highlighted and clarified aspects of the argument herein. The author would also like to thank Marshall Beier for his guidance in writing this chapter. All errors remain the author’s own.
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Watson, A.M.S. (2020). Centralizing Childhood, Remaking the Discourse. In: Beier, J. (eds) Discovering Childhood in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46063-1_12
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