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Children's Rights in International Politics

The Transformative Power of Discourse

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Anna Holzscheiter

    1. Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: Transformations of the State (TRST)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Anna Holzscheiter
      Pages 1-23

  3. Discursive Practices, Power and Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Power and Exclusion in Discourse Approaches to International Relations

      • Anna Holzscheiter
      Pages 27-45

    3. Discursive Transformation and the Role of Institutions

      • Anna Holzscheiter
      Pages 46-80

  4. Global Childhood Revisited

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Global Childhood — an Essentially Uncontested Concept?

      • Anna Holzscheiter
      Pages 83-98

    3. Discourses of Childhood — the ‘Communicative Ecology’ of the Child

      • Anna Holzscheiter
      Pages 99-137

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 253-301
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About this book

Provides insights into a lively field of international human rights politics – the protection of children and their rights – by looking at the negotiations leading to the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

    Anna Holzscheiter

About the author

ANNA HOLZSCHEITER is a Lecturer at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. She has been involved in several consultancies with UNICEF and has written a Commentary on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Article 20 – Children Without Parental Care together with Nigel Cantwell.

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