Accessing the Future
Children’s Conceptions and Practices of Access Rights in Environmental Matters
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- Frederike Lindau
How do children perceive access and participation rights in environmental matters? The study presented in this book aims to broaden the discourse on political participation in environmental issues to include the perspectives of children and young people. As part of a participatory qualitative study, six interviews were conducted with young activists to explore their perspectives on their rights in environmental matters. The theoretical framework of the study is the concept of ‘Living Rights’. Different dimensions of children’s understanding of rights in relation to a healthy environment are a…
Bestellnummer: | 14184 |
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EAN: | 9783954141845 |
ISBN: | 978-3-95414-184-5 |
Reihe: | Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
Auflage: | 1. |
Seitenzahl: | 72 |
Produktinformationen
How do children perceive access and participation rights in environmental matters? The study presented in this book aims to broaden the discourse on political participation in environmental issues to include the perspectives of children and young people. As part of a participatory qualitative study, six interviews were conducted with young activists to explore their perspectives on their rights in environmental matters. The theoretical framework of the study is the concept of ‘Living Rights’. Different dimensions of children’s understanding of rights in relation to a healthy environment are analyzed, and challenges that children encounter when invoking their rights to access and participation are revealed.
Inhaltsübersicht
Foreword (Prof. Dr. Manfred Liebel & Prof. Dr. Jörg Maywald)
Introduction
Literature Review
Children’s Rights related to a healthy environment
Intersectional discrimination and environmental harm
Conceptions of rights – as framework and living practice
A framework for children’s rights in environmental matters
Access and participation rights
Broadening the discourse: Rights as living rights
Environmental activism and children’s role: Reflections from literature and the public discourse
Children’s activism for the environment and their access to justice: Recent examples
The conceptions of environmental ethics and environmental activists: Findings in literature
Research and methodology
Context of research and field access
Limitations of research
Ethical aspects of involving children in research
Research questions
Research methods
Interview-design
Data-analysis
Results
Category 1: Conceptions of rights
Subcategory 1: Experience of the environment and environmental harm
Subcategory 2: Entitlement and generativity
Subcategory 3: Rights and formulations of justice as language for legitimation, as tool and as supportive framework
Category 2: Conceptions on activism as practice of participation and access rights
Subcategory 1: Activism as a result of a learning process, socialized through personal relationships and inspirations by others
Subcategory 2: Conceptions on approaches to activism
Subcategory 3: Activism as a personal benefit
Subcategory 4: Activism as a personal and societal challenge
Subcategory 5: A call to action for accountability, rule of law, participation and a change of consciousness
Summary of findings
Discussion
The experience of the environment: From an anthropocentric to a biocentric vision
Generativity and collectivity: Considering relations of injustice that reach beyond the present
The need for a more inclusive vision of law and jurisdiction
Conclusion
References
Abstract (Deutsch)
About the author
Kurzbeschreibung
How do children perceive access and participation rights in environmental matters? The study presented in this book aims to broaden the discourse on political participation in environmental issues to include the perspectives of children and young people. As part of a participatory qualitative study, six interviews were conducted with young activists to explore their perspectives on their rights in environmental matters. The theoretical framework of the study is the concept of ‘Living Rights’. Different dimensions of children’s understanding of rights in relation to a healthy environment are analyzed, and challenges that children encounter when invoking their rights to access and participation are revealed.