Young People, Rights and Place: Erasure, Neoliberal Politics and Postchild Ethics

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Sociology

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Wordery

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Taylor & francis

Young People, Rights and Place: Erasure, Neoliberal Politics and Postchild Ethics : Routledge : 9781138697720 : 1138697729 : 23 May 2018 : Concern is growing about children's rights and the curtailment of those rights through the excesses of neoliberal governance. This book discusses children's spatial and citizenship rights, and the ways young people and their families push against diminished rights. Armed initially with theoretical concerns about the construction of children through the political status quo and the ways youth rights are spatially segregated, the book begins with a disarmingly simple supposition: Young people have the right to make and remake their spaces and, as a consequence, themselves. This book de-centers monadic ideas of children in favor of a post-humanist perspective, which embraces the radical relationality of children as more-than-children/more-than-human. Its empirical focus begins with the struggles of Slovenian Izbrisani (?erased') youth from 1992 to t

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