ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the post-structural approach adopted in this book, and how it draws upon Michel Foucault's notion of problematization to construct an explicitly political line of analysis of children's rights. In doing so, it acknowledges some of the key criticisms of post-structural analysis, but defends against these by claiming that it is an approach that is very much alive to the real, embodied subject of knowledge. It also provides an account of governmentality, to relate the task of theorizing and to the pursuit of analysing real problems that arise in the policy contexts that follow in subsequent chapters.
