This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand study and analyze age based discrimination against children It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child CRC and in what ways violations against children can be analyzed through the intersections of racist sexist and ableist discrimination The book further offers scholars a new perspective when studying structural forms of discrimination and oppression against children and provides professionals with a new vocabulary on prejudice targeting children when assessing theory policy and praxis on ‘child friendly’ and ‘child centered’ initiatives that overlook the need to protect children against discrimination This book will be of key interest to scholars students and practitioners of human rights child and youth studies education prejudice studies the United Nations and child law and more broadly to sociology social policy psychology and social work
