BOOK LAUNCH: Critical Children’s Rights Studies. Routledge Research Companion

Valeria Llobet, Didier Reynaert, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh and Wouter Vandenhole (eds)

Friday, September 12, 2025

2.00pm-3.30pm (UK/GMT+1) - Online

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We would like to invite you to join us at a book launch which will share the reflections and insights of the editors as well as some of the contributors and critical friends of the volume.

The field of children’s rights studies is well established and largely dominated by a top-down approach that considers these rights as objective standards requiring implementation in practice or policy. This book argues for a critical perspective which views the area as contested terrain with conflicting normative foundations and traditions. The collection brings together established and rising scholars whose work has been central to not only challenging mainstream children’s rights discourses but also provides alternative pathways to conceptualizing children’s rights. It moves beyond critiques of these dominant discourses and sets out the emerging paradigm of Critical Children’s Rights Studies drawing on contexts in both the Global North and Global South. It proposes new pathways and subjects these to scrutiny, illuminating the importance of contextual situatedness and acknowledging the need to consider researchers’ own positionality when outlining their stance on children’s rights.

Containing both empirical and theoretical scholarship, the book will be an essential resource for students, academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the multidisciplinary areas of childhood studies, children’s rights studies and international human rights.

SPEAKERS

•VALERIA LLOBET (ed)

•DIDIER REYNAERT (ed)

•AFUA TWUM-DANSO IMOH (ed)

•WOUTER VANDENHOLE (ed)

•ANN SKELTON (Discussant)

•TATEK ABEBE (author)

•LUCIA RABELLO DE CASTRO (author)

•NICO BRANDO (author)

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