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Re-understanding the child's right to identity : on belonging, responsiveness and hope /

Re-understanding the Child's Right to Identity - On belonging, Responsiveness and Hope , by Ya'ir Ronen offers an innovative understanding of the right to identity aiming to transform its meaning and thus its protection. Drawing on sources from different disciplines, including law, theolog...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ronen, Yaʼir
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2016.
Colección:Nijhoff law specials.
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  • Re-understanding the Child's Right to Identity: On Belonging, Responsiveness and Hope; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgements; A Note on Style; Permissions; 1 Re-understanding the Right to Identity as a Right to Belonging; I Introduction; II The Rationale for Re-understanding the Right to Identity; 1 Facilitating the Development of an Authentic Self-Actualizing Individual; 2 Does Legal Recognition of an Individualized Identity Imply Endorsement of a Traditional Liberal Individualist Ethos?
  • 3 Is Public Recognition of the Child's Individualized Identity Necessary in the Children's Rights Era?4 How Can Law Protect not only the Child's Right 'to Become' but also His Right 'to Be'?; 5 Culture as a Context of Personal Meaning; Beyond Cultural Sensitivity; III International Law; 1 Specific References to Identity in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; 2 The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; 3 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Overall Picture; IV Identity is Two Cases; 1 The Judges' Narratives.
  • 2 Counter-NarrativesV Conclusion; 2 Responsiveness to Children and Law's Healing Power; I Introduction; II Responsiveness to Children's Suffering, Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Path Blazed by Emmanuel Levinas; Healing the Law and Widening the Scope of Interdisciplinarity; Responsiveness and Responsibility; III Is There a Cure to the Universal Phenomenon of Denying Children's Suffering?; Denial of Suffering as a Tool to Preserve the Status Quo ; Translating Responsiveness into Legal Norms; IV How Can Protecting Children Actualize Democracy's Unique Potential?; Intervention: At What Price?
  • V What Should Be the Principal Aim of State Action on Behalf of the Suffering Child?Which Takes Precedence? Justice, Truth, or Preventing Abuse?; VI How Can We Respond to the Child's Suffering through the Best Interests Principle?; From Pseudoobjectivity to Intersubjectivity; On Helping Professionals Overcoming the Limitations of Theoretical Knowledge; Re-understanding the Best Interests of the Child; The Brown Ruling
  • A Forerunner of Therapeutic Jurisprudence?; Acknowledging Our Subjectivity; VII More on Responding to the Child's Experience in a Multicultural Society.
  • Protecting Minority IdentitiesMore on Protecting a Unique Individualized Identity; How May We Implement Our Understandings?; VIII Conclusion; 3 Children's Identity: Constructing Memory through Law and Its Responsiveness to Children; I Introduction; II Alienation, Children's Experience and Doctrinal Thinking; III Self-Constructing Identity and Remembering as Dynamic Processes; IV Authoring Memory through Law and the Challenge of Psychological Mindedness; V Struggling over Memory; VI Protecting the Family Lives of Children from Disadvantaged Homes.