Après la Déclaration des droits de l'enfant
L'enfance et les enfants en Asie
Revisiter le paradigme des années 90

Séminaire d'avril 2009

 

Following the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), listening to the voices of children has become a powerful and pervasive mantra for activists and policy makers worldwide. Recited now by politicians as well as practitioners, the voices of children have become a symbol of the modern welfare state's commitment to the values of freedom, democracy, and care.

[But] the current rhetoric about "giving voice to children," commonplace both inside and outside the academy, poses a threat to the future of childhood research because it masks a number of important conceptual and epistemological problems. In particular, these relate to questions of representation, issues of authenticity, the diversity of children's experiences, and children's participation in research, all of which need to be addressed by anthropologists in their own research practices with children. Unless anthropologists do so, childhood research risks becoming marginalized once more and will fail to provide an arena within which children are seen as social actors who can provide a unique perspective on the social world about matters that concern them as children.

Allison James, Giving Voice to Children's Voices: Practices and Problems, Pitfalls and Potentials, American Anthropologist, Vol. 109, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 261–272

 

Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant
(Entrée en vigueur le 2 septembre 1990)

A télécharger sur le site du Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies
aux droits de l'homme:

http://www2.ohchr.org/french/law/crc.htm

Déclaration de la Society for Medical Anthropology
(l'une des sections de l'American Anthropological Association):

http://www.medanthro.net/stand/childrights/revised.html