Children and Violence
Agency, Experience, and Representation in and beyond Armed Conflict
Mohamed Kamara editor Mark A Drumbl editor Jastine C Barrett editor Karl Hanson editor Christelle Molima Bameka editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:11th Apr '25
£145.00
This title is due to be published on 11th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This multi-disciplinary volume provides an innovative approach to children and violence, looking beyond the existing literature that focuses on child soldiers in the ‘Global South’.
Harnessing expert contributions from over a dozen countries, the book examines the relationship between children and violence, with a focus on children ensnared in military conflict, embroiled in criminal gangs, and enmeshed in political activism. It analyses how children join fights, how they fight, and what happens to them after fighting officially ends. It addresses cutting-edge issues such as cyberwars, self-defence, intergenerational trauma, gender fluidity, racism, and state surveillance. Throughout, the book underscores the need to respect the agency and dignity of children and youth, to build cultures of juvenile rights, and to think critically of the place of the child amid global power politics and decolonialization. Through accessible writing, and the provision of considerable new data, this book supports advocacy work, and will enrich teaching and spark further academic research.
This book will be of great interest to students of International Law, Human Rights, Childhood Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Post-conflict studies and Security Studies.
‘I highly recommend this important volume, which examines how children are actors in different kinds of fights and struggles. Interconnecting areas of violence that are often fragmented and bringing forward voices from diverse countries, it sheds new light on children’s agency and ability to navigate and shape complex environments.’
Michael Wessells, Professor Emeritus, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Columbia University, USA
‘How do children fight? That is, how do young people experience concerted violence, whether it is called armed conflict, cartel criminality, cyberwar, or something else? Seeking answers through multidisciplinary research by authors from around the globe, this rich collection opens paths for an empirically grounded, fully inclusive child rights practice.’
Diane Marie Amann, Regents’ Professor of International Law, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law, USA
‘This multi-disciplinary, multi-faceted, and multi-regional volume is a welcome contribution to scholarship on child-related violence. It offers important insights on violence in various forms and contexts, ranging from armed conflict, cyber warfare, and trafficking to economic, gendered, and racialized violence, among others. Taken as a whole, the chapters in this edited collection enrich, reframe, and expand debates on the relationship between childhood and violence.’
Hedi Viterbo, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Law Founding Director of the Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN), Queen Mary University of London, UK
ISBN: 9781032710716
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280 pages