South American Childhoods

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children's rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration.

1. South American Childhoods Since the 1990s: Between Neoliberalisation and the Expansion of Rights. An Introduction. - 2. Rights Activism, Judicial Practices, and Interpretative Codes: Children in Family Justice (Argentina, 1990-2015). - 3. The Problems of Child Labour: International Agents Versus Local Contexts. - 4. Early Childhood and Neoliberalisation in Colombia: True Discussions, Government Rationality, and Conducting Behaviour. - 5. The Pedagogical Bond in the Managerial Organization of Chilean Schools. - 6. Life Courses of Out-of-School Adolescents: Neoliberalism, Vulnerabilities, and Violation of the Right to Education in Peru. - 7. Participation Rights in Brazilian Schools: Towards the Politicization of Intergenerational Relationships? . - 8. Children and the Migratory Process in Ecuador Between 1999 and 2009: From Financial Crisis' Trauma to the Promises of the Rule of Law. - 9. Venezuelan Children on the Move in Ecuador: Fragile Lives of Risk and Hope. - 10. Back and Forth: From Women to Childhood. - 11. Concluding Remarks.