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Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
Contributor(s): Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera (Author)
ISBN: 1108429874     ISBN-13: 9781108429870
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $123.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Human Rights
- Political Science | Peace
Dewey: 303.660
LCCN: 2019007847
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.25" W x 9.25" (0.82 lbs) 174 pages
 
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Who has the right to a safe and protected childhood? Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding deepens understanding of children as political capital in the hands of those in power, critically engaging children's voices alongside archival, historical, and ethnographic material in Palestine. Offering the concept of unchilding', Shalhoub-Kevorkian exposes the political work of violence designed to create, direct, govern, transform, and construct colonized children as dangerous, racialized others, enabling their eviction from the realm of childhood itself. Penetrating children's everyday intimate spaces and, simultaneously, their bodies and lives, unchilding works to enable a complex machinery of violence against Palestinian children: imprisonment, injuries, loss, trauma, and militarized political occupation. At the same time as the book documents violations of children's rights and the consequences this has for their present and future well-being, it charts children's resistance to and power to interrupt colonial violence, reclaiming childhood and, with it, Palestinian futures.

Contributor Bio(s): Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera: - Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair of Law at the Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminology, and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Chair in Global Law, Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear (Cambridge, 2015).