Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study and analyse age-based discrimination against children.

Rebecca Adami is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Research Associate at SOAS University of London, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, United Kingdom.

1. Critical child rights theory: Power, discrimination and epistemic injustice 2. Childism: To study the unbearable in the everyday 3. Childism and racism intersecting 4. Chidlism and sexism intersecting 5. Childism and ableism intersecting 6. Challenging adultism 7. Justice in childhood 8. Discussion: Anti-childist policy and pratice