| Tittel: | Vulnerability as an Underlying Norm for Children’s Rights: Conclusions and Further Outlook |
| Ansvar: | Trude Haugli og Mona Martnes |
| Forfatter: | Haugli, Trude  / Martnes, Mona |
| Materialtype: | Bokkapittel |
| Utgitt: | Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2025 |
| Omfang: | S. 318–323 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9788215069517 |
| Emneord: | Barn / Barnerett / Barnevern / Barns rettigheter / Vitenskapelig publikasjon |
| Note: | Open access - Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) |
| Innhold: | The intention with this project was to obtain insight into how vulnerability as an underlying norm and logic for children’s rights is understood and how this can affect the safeguarding of rights. To achieve this aim, theories about vulnerability are used to explore the connection between vulnerability and children’s rights. Based on the findings in this book, we are convinced that the theories of vulnerability and the diverse ways of understanding this phenomenon bring added value to the discussions about children and children’s rights. Read as a whole, the chapters shed light on how vulnerability has different meanings and paradigms; the way in which vulnerability is understood could influence the safeguarding of rights, both children’s rights in general and specific rights for children in specific contexts. Since there is no common definition of vulnerability, when referring to the concept one should try to make clear which understanding one’s argumentations are built upon. |
| Del av verk: | Perspectives on children, rights, and vulnerability |
| Forlagets omtale: |
This volume explores and challenges the concept of vulnerability in the way it is applied and discussed in relation to children from a northwestern European perspective. While the concept of vulnerability has been significantly explored in relation to childhood and children's rights, this volume adds a fresh lens by adding a predominantly legal perspective. The predominantly legal perspectives and the way many of the authors are taking their departure point from the work of Martha Fineman bring a new third dimension to the discussion of the concept of vulnerability. This interrogation of the concept of vulnerability is deployed in discussions that cover wide ranging issues relating to the environment, immigration, healthcare, education and climate change. Health is a focus of several chapters. While some of the chapters challenge the concept of vulnerability, others mainly work from more dominant interpretations of child vulnerability and some also bring in the perspective of the multidisciplinary field of childhood studies. The chapters represent a mixture of theoretical and empirical pieces. In the last chapter, some of the key threads running through the whole volume are brought together with some concluding reflections. The theoretical concepts and the questions raised by many of the chapters included in this volume have the potential to contribute to further thinking in this area.
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