This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights into the ways children's lives figure as terrains of engagement, contestation, ambivalence, resistance, and reproduction of militarisms. The first three chapters challenge dominant ontologies that prefigure childhood in particular ways. These include who counts as a child worthy of protection, questions of voice and participation, and the diminution of agency. The chapters in the second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function to militarize children's lives, including in but not limited to advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North. The thirdand final section includes investigations that foreground questions of responsibility to children. Here, contributors assess, among other things, resilience-building, the exigencies of protection, and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting children.

Offers nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space Explores the complexities of a particular case study Assesses resilience-building, protection, and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting children

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J. Marshall Beier is Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.

Jana Tabak is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights into the ways children s lives figure as terrains of engagement, contestation, ambivalence, resistance, and reproduction of militarisms. The first three chapters challenge dominant ontologies that prefigure childhood in particular ways. These include who counts as a child worthy of protection, questions of voice and participation, and the diminution of agency. The chapters in the second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function to militarize children s lives, including in but not limited to advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North. The thirdand final section includes investigations that foreground questions of responsibility to children. Here, contributors assess, among other things, resilience-building, the exigencies of protection, and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting children.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction: Other Childhoods: Finding Children in Peace and Conflict.- Chapter 2. Children as Soldiers or Civilians: Norms and Politics in the United Nations Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism on Children Affected by Armed Conflict.- Chapter 3. Voices of Ex-Child Soldiers from the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Public and Private Narratives.- Chapter 4. I have the Right': Examining the Role of Children in the #DimeLaVerdad Campaign.- Chapter 5. Children, Internationalism, and Armistice Commemoration in Britain, 1919-1939.- Chapter 6. Childhood, Education, and Everyday Militarism in China Before and After 1949.- Chapter 7. Primary Education and The French Army during the Algerian War of Independence.- Chapter 8. Militarizing Citizenship in Ukraine: Strategy for the National-Patriotic Education of Children and Youth in Social Context.- Chapter 9. More than a Victim: Childhood Resilience in Malik Sajad's Munnu.- Chapter 10. Children and Childhood on the Borderland of Desired Peace and Undesired War: A Case of Ukraine.- Chapter 11. Production of 'Safe' Spaces for Adivasi Children and the Armed Conflict of Bastar, India.- Chapter 12. Raising the Empire's Children? Everyday Insecurities and Parenting the Privileged in the United States.