Editors:
- Offers nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space
- Explores the complexities of a particular case study
- Assesses resilience-building, protection, and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting children
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ontologies of Children in Peace and Conflict
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Pedagogies of Children in Peace and Conflict
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Contingencies of Children in Peace and Conflict
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights into the ways children’s lives figure as terrains of engagement, contestation, ambivalence, resistance, and reproduction of militarisms. The first three chapters challenge dominant ontologies that prefigure childhood in particular ways. These include who counts as a child worthy of protection, questions of voice and participation, and the diminution of agency. The chapters in the second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function to militarize children’s lives, including in but not limited to advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North. The thirdand final section includes investigations that foreground questions of responsibility to children. Here, contributors assess, among other things, resilience-building, the exigencies of protection, and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting children.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
J. Marshall Beier
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Department of International Relations, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jana Tabak
About the editors
J. Marshall Beier is Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.
Jana Tabak is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Childhoods in Peace and Conflict
Editors: J. Marshall Beier, Jana Tabak
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74788-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74787-9Published: 27 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74790-9Published: 28 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74788-6Published: 26 September 2021
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 245
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Security Studies, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies, Development and Children