Includes bibliographical references and index.

Representing children

Part I. Childhood politics : from rights and participation to representation

Recognizing children’s rights : from child protection to children’s human rights—the 1979 Swedish ban on corporal punishment in perspective

Adults in charge : the limits of formal child participatory processes for societal transformation

Children’s participation in their right to education : learning from the Delhi high court cases, 1998–2001

Representing the child before the court

Part II. Children’s representation and the international politics of children’s rights

‘Could it be that they do not want to hear what we have to say?’ Organised working children and the international politics and representations of child labour

“Children without childhood” : representations of the child-soldier as an international emergency

Children’s representation in the transnational mirror maze

Part III. Children’s representation in times of inequalities and injustices

Deliberative disobedience as a strategy for claiming rights and representation in the family : the case of Accra’s street children

Combatting child poverty in the childhood moratorium : a representational lens on children’s rights

Child figurations in youth climate justice activism : the visual rhetoric of the Fridays for future on Instagram