Overview
- The first comprehensive work on children's rights
- Contributes to ending the intellectual stagnation on the discourse about children's rights
- Examines whether children’s citizenship is either realism or romanticism
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book examines the notion of children having full citizenship. It does so historically, through intellectual discourse, beliefs, and moral and ideological positions on children. It looks at the status and extent of knowledge of the position of children covering about 2500 years. The book takes European and other cultures, traditions and beliefs into consideration. It reflects on the topic from a variety of disciplines, including social sciences, theology and philosophy. The book places children’s citizenship in the centre of children’s rights discourse. Part of the work is a critical appraisal of ‘children’s participation’ because it diverts attention away from children as members of society toward being a separable group. The book moves on from child participation using a children’s rights based argument toward examination of the relationship of the child with the state, i.e. as potentially full member citizens.
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Keywords
- Child Participation
- Child Sciences
- Childhood Studies
- Childhood in antiquity
- Childhood in the middle ages
- Childhood in the modern world
- Children Citizenship
- Children’s Citizenship
- Children’s Rights
- Emergence of Childhood
- Emergence of Childhood
- Ideological Positions on Children
- Ideological Positions on Children From the High Middle Ages
- Inclusion of Children in Governance and Full Citizenship
- Modern World of Childhood
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The History and Theory of Children’s Citizenship in Contemporary Societies
Authors: Brian Milne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6521-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6520-7Published: 30 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9967-7Published: 22 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6521-4Published: 15 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 302
Topics: Political Philosophy, Civil Law, Social Structure, Social Inequality