The Challenge of Children’s Representations Seminar Series - Seminar 2
This seminar series seeks to the explore the politics of children’s rights and representations. It focuses on the interplay between the claims of different actors in the field of the representations of children and their rights, including children themselves, and the basis upon which these claims are made. The seminars are based on the work of a group of academics who have been working together for the last two years to explore children’s representations in relation to the research they have been conducting in various contexts including: Ghana, India, Sweden, Belgium and within the international human rights community. For more information visit our webpage here.
Seminars chaired by: Dr. Afua Twum-Danso Imoh (project lead) – University of Bristol (UK)
Deliberative disobedience as a strategy for representation by Accra's street children
Speaker: Prof. Yaw Ofosu-Kusi – University of Energy and Natural Resources (Ghana)
Discussant: George Affum Ansah (Catholic Action for Street Children, Ghana)
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Children and youth strategies for self-representation: Young migrants in Sweden
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Josefsson – Linkoping University (Sweden)
Discussant: Sanna Vestin (Swedish Network of Refugee Support Groups)
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Children’s rights and child poverty: Reflections through the lens of representation
Speaker: Dr. Didier Reynaert – University College Ghent (Belgium)
Discussant: Rudy De Cock (The Child and Family Agency, Flanders, Belgium)
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