A Political Space for Children? The Age Order and Children’s Right to Participation

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

This article discusses how adulthood is naturalized and how adulthood norms set limits on the possibilities of including children in democratic processes and understanding them as political subjects. The article examines the kind of resistance children and youth can meet when participating in democratic processes, with examples of speech acts from the Gothenburg Youth Council. It also discusses the theoretic concept of childism (Wall, 2008, 2010) and how childism can be a way to escape the dominance of adulthood norms. The concept of childism means addressing children’s experiences by transforming understandings and practices for all humans, not only for non-adults. How is it possible to create a political space for children and involve children in defining what should count as politically important?

Object Details

• ISSN: 2183-2803
• Extent: Seite(n): 164-171
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Social Inclusion, 5(3)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Politikwissenschaft ; Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Kind ; Jugendlicher ; politische Partizipation ; Kinderrechte ; Erwachsenenalter ; Norm ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Sundhall, Jeanette
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2017

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i3.969
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST