Children, Childhoods and Global Politics

J. Marshall Beier is Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. Helen Berents is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Griffith University.

Introduction: Children and Childhoods in Global Political Perspective - J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents


Part 1: Imagined Childhoods


1. ‘Anchor Babies’ and ‘Imposter Children’: Childhoods’ Representations in Global Migration Politics - Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli


2. Creating Inclusive Reconciliation and Reporting Spaces with Children: Valuing Their Stories - Caitlin Mollica


3. Stories about Children Born of Violence: Counternarratives in the Peruvian Truth Commission’s Archive and Popular Culture - Ana Lucia Alonso Soriano


4. (Un)Recognition of Child Soldiers’ Agency in UN Peacekeeping Practice - Dustin Johnson


Part 2: Governed Childhoods


5. Contested Children’s and Young People’s Political Representation in Global Health - Anna Holzscheiter and Laura Pantzerhielm


6. The Representative Breakthrough? Children and Youth Representation in the Global Governance of Migration - Jonathan Josefsson


7. The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict: A Normative Agenda and Children’s Agency in Armed Conflict - Vanessa Bramwell


8. In/visible Subjects: Global Migration Management and the Integration of Refugee Children into Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Alebachew K. Haybano and Jennifer Riggan


9. Alone and on the Move: Unaccompanied Children in UK Parliamentary Debates 2015–2016 - Lesley Pruitt and Antje Missbach


10. Pathologies of Child Governance: Safe Harbor Laws and Children Involved in the Sex Trade in the United States - Robyn Linde


Part 3: Lived Childhoods


11. Childhood, Playing War, and Militarism: Beyond Discourses of Domination/ Resistance and Towards an Ethics of Encounter - Sean Carter and Tara Woodyer


12. Troubling Girl Power Environmentalism: Indigenous Girls, Climate Change Activism, and a Relational Ethic of Responsibility - Lindsay Robinson


13. Children’s Intifada: Children as Participants in a Violent Conflict - Timea Spitka


14. Children’s Agency and Co-construction of Everyday Militarism(s): Representations and Realities of War in Ukrainian Children’s Art, 2014–2022 - Kristina Hook and Iuliia Hoban


15. Centring the Demand for Critical Climate Justice Education - Bennett Collins and Ali Watson