Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child: The Myth of a Happy Childhood

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Rebecca Adami (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child

The Myth of a Happy Childhood

Rebecca Adami (Stockholm University, Sweden)

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26 December 2025

Social issues & processes; Sociology: family & relationships; International institutions; Human rights; Personal & public health

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Rights

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.

Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

By: Rebecca Adami (Stockholm University Sweden)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032638621
ISBN 10: 1032638621
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Rights
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 26 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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

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.