The Right to Childhoods: Critical Perspectives on Rights, Difference and Knowledge in a Transient World

by Dimitra Hartas

In this study, Dimitra Hartas analyses contemporary childhood. She discusses the plurality inherent in childhood and the forces that shape children's experience of growing up in the 21st century. She engages with new lines of argument about diversity, difficulty and difference, and critiques the issues that affect children's quality of life such as market-driven values, poverty and civic engagement.

Hartas shows how the right to childhood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826495680
• ISBN13: 9780826495686
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"