ABSTRACT
The book opens with three short examples of controversies in which children have entered political debates. It is in these contexts that the book seeks to pursue political questions that attend to how we think, talk and argue about children's rights rather than pursue the empirical and normative debates that currently characterize the discourse. It explains how the child is understood in the book, in pre-modern, modern and post-modern terms and provides a brief outline of the chapters that follow.
