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Children's rights and the future

ContributorsHanson, Karl
Published inValeria Llobet, Didier Reynaert, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Wouter Vandenhole (Ed.), Critical Children’s Rights Studies. A Research Companion, p. 96-107
PublisherLondon : Routledge
Publication date2025-06-13
Abstract

This chapter engages with the challenge to further develop conceptual clarifications how children’s rights relate to the future. First, it briefly retraces how the author came to consider the relationship between children’s rights and the future as a central problem in children’s rights studies. Next, the conceptual questions this chapter seeks to address are clarified by questioning the notion ‘coevalness’. Taking the CRC Committee’s General Comment no. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment as starting point, it then reflects on the different ways how children and the future are being considered. Recognizing children as present future-makers is crucial for advancing an emancipatory perspective on children’s rights as it creates conceptual space for children to critically engage with and participate in discussions, on equal footing with others, regarding their self-involved futures, future children, and the future of humankind.

Keywords
  • Future
  • Coevalness
  • Children’s environmental activism
  • Self-involved futures
  • Future children
  • The future of humankind
  • Present future-makers
Citation (ISO format)
HANSON, Karl. Children’s rights and the future. In: Critical Children’s Rights Studies. A Research Companion. Valeria Llobet, Didier Reynaert, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Wouter Vandenhole (Ed.). London : Routledge, 2025. p. 96–107. doi: 10.4324/9781003510284-7
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