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1 online resource (318 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover; Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Living rights, social justice, translations; From one to many centres; Living rights; Social justice; Translations; Interrelations and flux; Part I Living rights; 2 Ukugana: 'Informal marriage' and children's rights discourse among rural 'AI DS-orphans' in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Geographies; Terminology; Pathways to 'informal marriage'; Gender, power and relationship; Pathways of children's rights discourse; Girls in ukugana relationships. |
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Weighing up education and relationshipConclusion: ukugana and living rights; 3 Seeing and knowing? Street children's lifeworlds through the camera's lens; Seeing and knowing; Representing visually children's living rights; Lessons from the Kubolo; Conclusion; 4 Interdependent rights and agency: the role of children in collective livelihood strategies in rural Ethiopia; Theoretical debates on children's agency; Gedeo children's social and material world; Rural poverty and children's views on work; Agricultural entrepreneurship; Grounding children's right to work. |
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Interdependent rights: concluding reflectionsAcknowledgements; 5 Young carpet weavers on the rights threshold: protection or practical self-determination?; Introduction; Competent weavers, vulnerable workers; Footloose labour; Weaving careers; Looking beyond the carpet factory; Conclusion; Part II Social justice; 6 Conflicting realities: the Kikuyu childhood ethos and the ethic of the CRC; Kikuyu parents' views of children: a Weberian perspective; The CRC ethic of childhood; Kikuyu ethos and CRC universal ethic. |
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7 The politics of failure: street children and the circulation of rights discourses in Kolkata (Calcutta), IndiaExisting research on children's rights; Three narrative incidents; Living rights as frictions; Politicizing rights; 8 Malik and his three mothers: AIDS orphans' survival strategies and how children's rights translations hinder them; The dynamics of orphan policy; Local dynamics of orphan support; The politics of NGO intervention; Whose 'best interests?'; Children's approaches to resource provision; Conclusion: translating victims into citizens; Part III Translations. |
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9 Living history by youth in post-war situationsIntroduction; Research in community organizations; Study of interacting developments in the aftermath of war; Living history; Living rights to living history; Enlivening developmental theory; Conclusion; 10 Inclusive universality and the child-caretaker dynamic; Human rights and cultural and religious diversity: inclusive universality; Children's rights and the child-caretaker dynamic; Dealing with conflicting rights; Three-step model; Step 1: Eliminate fake conflicts; Step 2: Preference for compromise; Step 3: Criteria for prioritization. |
| Note |
Taking into account inclusive universality and children's rights. |
| Summary |
Scholars from a range of different disciplines explore how best to implement children's rights. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Children's rights.
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Children's rights. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Children. |
| Added Author |
Nieuwenhuys, Olga.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hanson, Karl. Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development : Living Rights, Social Justice, Translations. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107031517 |
| ISBN |
9781139840620 (electronic book) |
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1139840622 (electronic book) |
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9781139381796 (electronic book) |
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1139381792 (electronic book) |
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9781139845359 (electronic book) |
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1139845357 (electronic book) |
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9781283836371 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283836378 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781139842990 |
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1139842994 |
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9781107031517 |
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1107031516 |
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