ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we turn to our main purpose. We want to present our own position within the politics of childhood and to produce an alternative discourse, different from that manifested in the documents analysed in the last chapter, based in different understandings of children and childhood. We will claim that the child is a fellow citizen and social agent, with rights and strengths, and that her here-and-now life is at least as significant as adult agendas for her future. We will see how this different discourse produces an alternative approach and understanding of public provisions for children, what we term ‘children’s spaces’.
