Young People, Rights and Place - 9781138697720

Taylor & Francis

Young People, Rights and PlaceErasure, Neoliberal Politics and Postchild Ethics\nAuthor(s): Stuart Aitken\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138697720, 978-1138697720\nSynopsis\nConcern is growing about childrens rights and the curtailment of those rights through the excesses of neoliberal governance. This book discusses childrens spatial and citizenship rights, and the ways young people and their families push against diminished rights.\n\nArmed initially with theoretical concerns about the construction of children through the political status quo and the ways youth rights are spatially segregated, the book begins with a disarmingly simple supposition: Young people have the right to make and remake their spaces and, as a consequence, themselves. This book de-centers monadic ideas of children in favor of a post-humanist perspective, which embraces the radical relationality of children as more-than-children/more-tha.