2020
DOI: 10.1163/15718182-02801005
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Waiting for Children’s Rights Theory

Abstract: In this article we argue that what is missing in children’s rights studies is not so much the presence of theories, but rather reflections and discussions about the normative relevance, analytical qualities and explanatory powers of the mobilised theories. We consider theorisations in children’s rights, first, on the normative level, where there is a need to continue reflecting about the moral and legal rights children have and/or should have, and about how these rights can be further exercised, or need to be … Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
6
0

Year Published

2021
2021
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
5
2

Relationship

0
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 16 publications
(7 citation statements)
references
References 30 publications
0
6
0
Order By: Relevance
“…143 Hanson and Peleg reiterate the 'need to continue reflecting about the moral and legal rights children have and/or should have, and about how these rights can be further exercised, or need to be balanced against one another'. 144 This paper demonstrated the ways in which protecting the privacy of children during the pandemic is linked to and enables the provision of education and play in such a way that risks from potential exploitation (commercial or otherwise) are more effectively mitigated. In this sense, we endorse the CRC Committee's view that '[p]rivacy is vital to children's agency, dignity and safety and for the exercise of their rights' and thus that states should ensure that digital products and services for education and play are subject to robust data protection and privacy standards.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…143 Hanson and Peleg reiterate the 'need to continue reflecting about the moral and legal rights children have and/or should have, and about how these rights can be further exercised, or need to be balanced against one another'. 144 This paper demonstrated the ways in which protecting the privacy of children during the pandemic is linked to and enables the provision of education and play in such a way that risks from potential exploitation (commercial or otherwise) are more effectively mitigated. In this sense, we endorse the CRC Committee's view that '[p]rivacy is vital to children's agency, dignity and safety and for the exercise of their rights' and thus that states should ensure that digital products and services for education and play are subject to robust data protection and privacy standards.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Rights have been the subject of rigorous cultural critique (e.g., Brown, 1997; Donnelly, 1984), as in many non‐Western cultures, the concept of rights, let alone children's rights, is a foreign one that has been introduced by global powers. Indeed, the children's rights movement has been characterized as a manifestation of cultural imperialism (Faulkner & Nyamutata, 2020; Hanson & Peleg, 2020; Reynaert et al., 2009). In this vein, the promulgation of infant rights has drawn pointed criticism from cultural anthropologists who warn that the universal basic needs of infants, which form the basis of arguments for the existence of infant rights, are not as universal as they are asserted to be.…”
Section: The Role Of Infant Rightsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…191 Rejecting the binary universalism and cultural relativism stalemate, many point instead to the opportunities associated with the implementation of children's rights in ways that are context sensitive, locally owned and bottom-up. 192 The concept of living rights, as articulated by Hanson and Nieuwenhuys, for instance, suggests that the meaning, interpretation and practice of children's rights constitute a living, dynamic process. They suggest that translation involves a mutual exchange of ideas which 'sustains reflexivity and can make the active reproduction of meaning more explicit and open to debate'.…”
Section: E Failure To Engage With the Accountability Of Child Soldiersmentioning
confidence: 99%