Anthropologists, Ethnographers and Children’s Rights. Critiques, Resistance and Powers
(2015) Routledge International Handbook of Children’s Rights Studies — ISBN: [9781138023703], p. 112-113, published
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- This chapter reviews anthropological approaches to children’s rights, with special attention to the relations between anthropology and children’s rights since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The first part analyses a strange paradox: while the CRC has contributed to a renewed interest in children among anthropologists,as well as to deep theoretical and methodological transformations in the discipline for grasping children’s experiences, anthropologists have strongly criticized global children’s rights law.A fter examining different forms of critiques that anthropologists have addressed to children’s rights law and their interest for the latters,the second part of the chapter will focus on bottom-up approaches,which aim at understanding rights as they are experienced by children,in particular in non-Western societies.The last section will analyse the anthropological trends that look at children’s rights as structures of power,or as being linked to structures of power that affect children’s lives.Consequently,this chapter,which reviews the anthropological works on children’s rights,tackles children’s rights defined in a variety of ways.
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André, G. (2015). Anthropologists, Ethnographers and Children’s Rights. Critiques, Resistance and Powers. In Wouter Vandenhole, Ellen Desmet, Didier Reynaert, Sara Lembrechts (ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Children’s Rights Studies (Routledge, p. p. 112-113). Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/223653