Child and the World

Child-Soldiers and the Claim for Progress
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8203-5639-6
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Studies in Security and International Affairs Series

However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant in almost every armed conflict around the world. The participation of children in wars may question the idea of childhood as a "once-upon-a-time story with a happy and predictable ending," disrupting the (natural) idea of a protected and innocent childhood and also eliciting fear, uncertainty, revulsion, horror, and sorrow.

Using the perspectives of both childhood studies and critical approaches to international relations, Jana Tabak explores the constructions of child-soldiers as "children at risk" and, at the same time, risky children. More specifically, The Child and the World aims both to problematize the boundaries that articulate child-soldiers as necessarily deviant and pathological in relation to "normal" children and to show how these specific limits participate in the (re)production and promotion of a particular version of the international political order. In this sense, the focus of this work is not on investigating child-soldiers' lives and experiences per se but on their presumed threatening feature as they depart from the protected territory of childhood, disquieting everyday international life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tabak, Jana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Jana Tabak is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of International Relations at Pontifical Catholic University at Rio de Janeiro. In 2012, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University. She is the coauthor of International Organizations: History and Practices and Modernity at Risk: Complex Emergencies, Humanitarianism, Sovereignty.