ABSTRACT

Looking beyond the legal approach of child rights governance (CRG) in the European Union (EU), this study contextualises a society-centric understanding of CRG concerning the sociological theory of childhood and new modes of governance as applied in the children’s rights sphere. By referring to the shortcomings and gaps in the legal perspective on CRG (e.g. tokenistic political participation by children, the dominant discourse on the protection of children versus empowerment, the legal fact that the EU cannot ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the implementation gap), the paper shows the subjective aspects of CRG while problematising children’s participation rights. Building on intersecting themes such as children’s lived citizenship and youthful political agency, the paper asks what theoretical references are needed for society-centric solutions to the shortcomings of the legal perspective addressed earlier.

摘要

超越欧盟 (EU) 儿童权利治理 (CRG) 的法律方法，本研究将 CRG 的社会中心理解与儿童社会学理论和应用于儿童权利领域的新治理模式联系起来。通过提及 CRG 法律视角的缺陷和差距（例如儿童象征性的政治参与、关于保护儿童与赋权的主导话语、欧盟无法批准《联合国儿童权利公约》的法律事实以及实施差距），本文展示了 CRG 的主观方面，同时将儿童的参与权问题化。以儿童的公民身份和年轻的政治机构等交叉主题为基础，