| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 356 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Conceptual and theoretical foundations -- Casting the first stone : the Israeli legal system, its human rights critics, and their approaches to young Palestinians -- The age of governing : young age as a means of control -- Boundary governance : amending childhood and separating Palestinians -- Stolen childhood : voice, loss, and trauma in human rights reports -- Sights of violence : childhood in the visual battlefield -- Infantilization and militarism : soldiers as children, children as soldiers -- Unsettling children : Israeli law and settlers' childhood |
| Summary |
"In this book, Hedi Viterbo radically challenges our picture of law, human rights, and childhood, both in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. He reveals how Israel, rather than disregarding international law and children's rights, has used them to hone and legitimize its violence against Palestinians. He exposes the human rights community's complicity in this situation, due to its problematic assumptions about childhood, its uncritical embrace of international law, and its recurring emulation of Israel's security discourse. He examines how, and to what effect, both the state and its critics manufacture, shape, and weaponize the categories 'child' and 'adult.' Bridging disciplinary divides, Viterbo analyzes hundreds of previously unexamined sources, many of which are not publicly available. Bold, sophisticated, and informative, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine provides unique insights into the evertightening relationship between law, children's rights, and state violence, at both the local and global levels"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Based on author's thesis (doctoral--London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012) issued under title: The legal construction of childhood in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Israel
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- West Bank
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Gaza Strip
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Arab-Israeli conflict -- Law and legislation
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Gaza Strip
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Israel
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West Bank
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021024875 |
| ISBN |
9781009019842 |
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1009019848 |
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1009027417 |
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1316519996 |
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9781316519998 |
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1009011553 |
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9781009011556 |
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9781009027410 |
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