Overview
- Addresses new ways to approach Children’s rights
- Highlights the gap between children’s formal rights and real freedom
- Addresses a variety of settings and theoretical developments
- Inspiring for human rights advocates
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 8)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- A liberal perspective on young people and citizenship
- Child participation in children’s parliament
- Children’s right studies
- Contextualizing children’s rights
- Cross-fertilizing childrens’s rights
- Growing up in contexts of vulnerability
- Observing capabilities and functionings
- Participation of children in care in assessment process
- Transforming children’s rights into real freedom
- Understanding the institutionalized "youth land”
About this book
This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children’s rights into capabilities in settings as different as children’s parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care. It addresses theoretical questions linked to children’s agency and reflexivity, education, the life cycle perspective, child participation, evolving capabilities and citizenship. The volume highlights important issues that have to be taken into account for the implementation of human rights and the development of peoples’ capabilities. The focus on children’s capabilities along a rights-based approach is an inspiring perspective that researchers and practitioners in the field of human rights would like to deepen.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel Stoecklin is Associate Professor in Sociology, at the University Institute Kurt Bösch (IUKB), in Sion, Switzerland. His areas of research and teaching are the sociology of childhood, children’s rights, street children and participation. He is also a Scientific Collaborator, at the International Institute for the Rights of the Child. His has worked for several NGOs regarding projects in the field of children in difficult situations and he has been an Independent Expert for the Council of Europe regarding children’s participation.
Jean-Michel Bonvin is Professor in Sociology and Social Policies at the Haute école de travail social et de la santé – éésp – Vaud. His areas of expertise include social policies (notably in favor of disadvantaged youth), sociology of work and organizations and theories of justice and the capability approach. His research has been funded by the European Union (FP6 and FP7) and by the Swiss National Fund.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children’s Rights and the Capability Approach
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Prospects
Editors: Daniel Stoecklin, Jean-Michel Bonvin
Series Title: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9091-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9090-1Published: 29 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0715-0Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9091-8Published: 14 July 2014
Series ISSN: 1879-5196
Series E-ISSN: 1879-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 293
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Human Rights, Social Structure, Social Inequality