Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Colonization of childhoods and identities of resistance -- 1. Submission and humiliation of childhoods from a decolonial perspective -- 2. Children's rights movements and the hidden history of children's rights -- 3. Children's rights studies in search of its own profile -- 4. Ethical challenges of research with children of the Global South -- 5. Adultism, children's political participation and voting rights -- 6. Children's rights and political subjectivities -- 7. Flexible adaptation or resistance? Paradoxes and pitfalls of discourses on resilience in children -- 8. Children's protagonism: considerations for its reconceptualization -- 9. "Not about us, but with us!": perspectives of insurgent research with children in the Global South -- Epilogue: Children's rights as counter-rights.

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Manfred Liebel was Founder and Director of the MA Childhood Studies and Children's Rights at the Free University of Berlin and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 2007-2021, and is now an independent social researcher and activist. Rebecca Buddeis a cultural scientist and was the Academic Coordinator of the MA Childhood Studies and Children's Rights, 2007-2021. Urszula Markowska- Manista is Researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw and was the Co- Director of the MA Childhood Studies and Children's Rights, 2016-2021. Philip Meade is a social pedagogue and Lecturer in the MA Childhood Studies and Children's Rights. With Manfred Liebel, he is co- founder of the ProNATs Association to strengthen the rights of children and youth.

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