Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xvi

Introduction: Children and Childhoods in Global Political Perspective

pp 1-14

PART I - Imagined Childhoods

pp 15-16

1 - ‘Anchor Babies’ and ‘Imposter Children’: Childhoods’ Representations in Global Migration Politics

pp 17-30

2 - Creating Inclusive Reconciliation and Reporting Spaces with Children: Valuing Their Stories

pp 31-44

3 - Stories about Children Born of Violence: Counter-narratives in the Peruvian Truth Commission’s Archive and Popular Culture

pp 45-57

4 - (Un)Recognition of Child Soldiers’ Agency in UN Peacekeeping Practice

pp 58-70

PART II - Governed Childhoods

pp 71-72

5 - Contested Children’s and Young People’s Political Representation in Global Health

pp 73-86

6 - The Representative Breakthrough? Children and Youth Representation in the Global Governance of Migration

pp 87-100

7 - The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict: A Normative Agenda and Children’s Agency in Armed Conflict

pp 101-113

8 - In/visible Subjects: Global Migration Management and the Integration of Refugee Children into Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

pp 114-126

9 - Alone and on the Move: Unaccompanied Children in UK Parliamentary Debates 2015–2016

pp 127-139

10 - Pathologies of Child Governance: Safe Harbor Laws and Children Involved in the Sex Trade in the United States

pp 140-152

PART III - Lived Childhoods

pp 153-154

11 - Childhood, Playing War, and Militarism: Beyond Discourses of Domination/Resistance and Towards an Ethics of Encounter

pp 155-166

12 - Troubling Girl Power Environmentalism: Indigenous Girls, Climate Change Activism, and a Relational Ethic of Responsibility

pp 167-179

13 - Children’s Intifada: Children as Participants in a Violent Conflict

pp 180-192

14 - Children’s Agency and Co-construction of Everyday Militarism(s): Representations and Realities of War in Ukrainian Children’s Art, 2014–2022

pp 193-209

15 - Centring the Demand for Critical Climate Justice Education

pp 210-224

Index

pp 225-231