Journal article
Ultimate Tests: Children, Rights, and the Politics of Protection
Abstract
Whether in the rhetorical strategies of the campaign to ban landlines, appeals for famine relief, or the present historical apex of mass refugee migration, deployed images of abject childhood are central to the visual economies of humanitarian crisis. As the quintessential innocents deemed in need of protection, children are constructed outside of meaningful subjecthood and objectified as the evocative ‘scenery’ of the politics of protection. …
Authors
Beier JM
Journal
Global Responsibility to Protect, Vol. 10, No. 1-2, pp. 164–187
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
DOI
10.1163/1875984x-01001009
ISSN
1875-9858