Discovering Childhood in International Relations

This book examines how and why, in the context of International Relations, children's subjecthood has all too often been relegated to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations: as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all typically with the accent on the Global South. Challenging us to think critically about childhood as a technology of global governance, the authors explore alternative ways of finding children and their agency in a more central position in IR, in terms of various forms of children's activism, children and climate change, children and security, children and resilience, and in their inevitable role in governing the future. Focusing on the problems, pitfalls, promises, and prospects of addressing children and childhoods in International Relations, this book places children more squarely in the purview of political subjecthood and hence more centrally in IR.

Autorentext

Marshall Beier is a Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction: Making Sense of Childhood in IR.- Chapter 2. Decolonizing Childhood in International Relations.- Chapter 3. Depicting Childhood: A Critical Framework for Engaging Images of Children in IR.- Chapter 4. Children as Agents in International Relations? Transnational Activism, International Norms, and the Politics of Age.- Chapter 5. Doing IR: Securing Children.- Chapter 6. A Tale of a (Dis)Orderly International Society: Protecting Child-Soldiers, Saving the Child, Governing the Future.- Chapter 7. From Hitler's Youth to the British Child Soldier: How the Martial Regulation of Children Normalizes and Legitimizes War.- Chapter 8. Toying with Militarization: Children and War on the Homefront.- Chapter 9. Between Borders: Pop Cultural Heroes and Plural Childhoods in IR.- Chapter 10. Revisiting 'womenandchildren' in Peace and Security: What About the Girls Caught in Between?.- Chapter 11. Subjects in Peril: Childhoods Between Security and Resilience.- Chapter 12. Centralizing Childhood, Remaking the Discourse.