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1. Chapter 2 To study the unbearable in the everyday

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Adami, Rebecca

Subjects
CRC,UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,age-based discrimination,structural discrimination,Hegemonic adultism,Childism,adultism,Misopedia,Patriarchy,human rights, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships
Abstract

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children. It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and in what ways violations against children can be analyzed through the intersections of racist, sexist, and ableist discrimination. The book further offers scholars a new perspective when studying structural forms of discrimination and oppression against children and provides professionals with a new vocabulary on prejudice targeting children when assessing theory, policy, and praxis on ‘child-friendly’ and ‘child-centered’ initiatives that overlook the need to protect children against discrimination. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, child and youth studies, education, prejudice studies, the United Nations and child law, and more broadly to sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work.

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2025
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2. Chapter 1 Critical child rights theory

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Adami, Rebecca

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CRC,UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,age-based discrimination,structural discrimination,Hegemonic adultism,Childism,adultism,Misopedia,Patriarchy,human rights, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships
Abstract

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children. It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and in what ways violations against children can be analyzed through the intersections of racist, sexist, and ableist discrimination. The book further offers scholars a new perspective when studying structural forms of discrimination and oppression against children and provides professionals with a new vocabulary on prejudice targeting children when assessing theory, policy, and praxis on ‘child-friendly’ and ‘child-centered’ initiatives that overlook the need to protect children against discrimination. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, child and youth studies, education, prejudice studies, the United Nations and child law, and more broadly to sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work.

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2025
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3. Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child

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Adami, Rebecca

Subjects
CRC,UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,age-based discrimination,structural discrimination,Hegemonic adultism,Childism,adultism,Misopedia,Patriarchy,human rights, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships
Abstract

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children. It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and in what ways violations against children can be analyzed through the intersections of racist, sexist, and ableist discrimination. The book further offers scholars a new perspective when studying structural forms of discrimination and oppression against children and provides professionals with a new vocabulary on prejudice targeting children when assessing theory, policy, and praxis on ‘child-friendly’ and ‘child-centered’ initiatives that overlook the need to protect children against discrimination. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, child and youth studies, education, prejudice studies, the United Nations and child law, and more broadly to sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work.

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2025
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4. Histopathologic and Transcriptomic Profiling Identifies Novel Trophoblast Defects in Patients With Preeclampsia and Maternal Vascular Malperfusion.

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Horii, Mariko, To, Cuong, Morey, Robert, Jacobs, Marni B, Li, Yingchun, Nelson, Katharine K, Meads, Morgan, Siegel, Brent A, Pizzo, Donald, Adami, Rebecca, Zhang-Rutledge, Kathy, Lamale-Smith, Leah, Laurent, Louise C, and Parast, Mana M

Subjects
Trophoblasts, Placenta, Humans, Pre-Eclampsia, Pathology, Clinical, Pregnancy, Female, Transcriptome, cytotrophoblast, extravillous trophoblast, fetal vascular malperfusion, maternal vascular malperfusion, preeclampsia, syncytiotrophoblast, Clinical Research, Pediatric, Perinatal Period - Conditions Originating in Perinatal Period, Contraception/Reproduction, Reproductive health and childbirth, Good Health and Well Being, Medical and Health Sciences, Pathology
Abstract

Preeclampsia (PE) is a heterogeneous disease for which the current clinical classification system is based on the presence or absence of specific clinical features. PE-associated placentas also show heterogeneous findings on pathologic examination, suggesting that further subclassification is possible. We combined clinical, pathologic, immunohistochemical, and transcriptomic profiling of placentas to develop integrated signatures for multiple subclasses of PE. In total, 303 PE and 1388 nonhypertensive control placentas were included. We found that maternal vascular malperfusion (MVM) in the placenta was associated with preterm PE with severe features and with small-for-gestational-age neonates. Interestingly, PE placentas with either MVM or no histologic pattern of injury showed a linear decrease in proliferative (p63+) cytotrophoblast per villous area with increasing gestational age, similar to placentas obtained from the nonhypertensive patient cohort; however, PE placentas with fetal vascular malperfusion or villitis of unknown etiology lost this phenotype. This is mainly because of cases of fetal vascular malperfusion in placentas of patients with preterm PE and villitis of unknown etiology in placentas of patients with term PE, which are associated with a decrease or increase, respectively, in the cytotrophoblast per villous area. Finally, a transcriptomic analysis identified pathways associated with hypoxia, inflammation, and reduced cell proliferation in PE-MVM placentas and further subclassified this group into extravillous trophoblast-high and extravillous trophoblast-low PE, confirmed using an immunohistochemical analysis of trophoblast lineage-specific markers. Our findings suggest that within specific histopathologic patterns of placental injury, PE can be subclassified based on specific cellular and molecular defects, allowing the identification of pathways that may be targeted for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

Published
2023

5. Revisiting the past : Human rights education and epistemic injustice

Author

Adami, Rebecca and Adami, Rebecca

Abstract

Epistemic injustice in human rights education can be found in a colonial historical trajectory of human rights that rests on accounts of western agency only. Such narratives overshadow the legacy of Indian and Pakistani freedom fighters and Latin American feminists who negotiated human rights against colonial, patriarchal and racist discourses after the Second World War. Without their contribution a United Nations rights concept risked being limited to a western trajectory of the ‘Rights of Man’ that represents a monistic universalism. This chapter revisits the history of the United Nations, unearthing historical counternarratives of what a pluralistic universalism of human rights means by adding knowledge about postcolonial feminist subjects who spoke of a positive conception that could reduce injustice.

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2025
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6. Childism, intersectionality and the rights of the child the myth of a happy childhood

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Adami, Rebecca and Adami, Rebecca

Abstract

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study and analyse age-based discrimination against children. It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and in what ways violations against children can be analysed through the intersections of racist, sexist and ableist discrimination. The book further offers scholars a new perspective when studying structural forms of discrimination and oppression against children and provides professionals with a new vocabulary on prejudice targeting children when assessing theory, policy and praxis on ‘child-friendly’ and ‘child-centred’ initiatives that overlook the need to protect children against discrimination. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of human rights, child and youth studies, education, prejudice studies, the United Nations and child law, and more broadly to sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work.

Published
2025

7. Maternal Serum miRNAs as Biomarkers for Abnormal Placentation

Author

Melber, Dora J, Pantham, Priya, Adami, Rebecca R, Fratto, Victoria, De Hoff, Peter, Vuppala, Aishwarya, Srinivasan, Srimeenakshi, Afshar, Yalda, Makhoul, Joshua A, Westermann, Melissa, Cassidy, Arianna G, Meads, Morgan, Liu, Tzu Ning, Magallanes, Celestine G, Martinez-King, Carolina, Fernando, Aileen N, Tran, Vy H, To, Cuong, Jacobs, Marni B, Murphy, Aisling M, Chung, Judith H, Norton, Mary E, Parast, Mana M, and Laurent, Louise C

Subjects
Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine
Published
2022

8. Exome Sequencing for Prenatal Diagnosis in Nonimmune Hydrops Fetalis

Author

Sparks, Teresa N, Lianoglou, Billie R, Adami, Rebecca R, Pluym, Ilina D, Holliman, Kerry, Duffy, Jennifer, Downum, Sarah L, Patel, Sachi, Faubel, Amanda, Boe, Nina M, Field, Nancy T, Murphy, Aisling, Laurent, Louise C, Jolley, Jennifer, Uy, Cherry, Slavotinek, Anne M, Devine, Patrick, Hodoglugil, Ugur, van Ziffle, Jessica, Sanders, Stephan J, MacKenzie, Tippi C, and Norton, Mary E

Subjects
Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine
Published
2021

10. Exome Sequencing for Prenatal Diagnosis in Nonimmune Hydrops Fetalis

Author

Sparks, Teresa N, Lianoglou, Billie R, Adami, Rebecca R, Pluym, Ilina D, Holliman, Kerry, Duffy, Jennifer, Downum, Sarah L, Patel, Sachi, Faubel, Amanda, Boe, Nina M, Field, Nancy T, Murphy, Aisling, Laurent, Louise C, Jolley, Jennifer, Uy, Cherry, Slavotinek, Anne M, Devine, Patrick, Hodoglugil, Ugur, Van Ziffle, Jessica, Sanders, Stephan J, MacKenzie, Tippi C, and Norton, Mary E

Subjects
Reproductive Medicine, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Health Sciences, Human Genome, Clinical Research, Genetic Testing, Precision Medicine, Pediatric, Genetics, Rare Diseases, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Good Health and Well Being, Female, Genetic Variation, Humans, Hydrops Fetalis, Pregnancy, Prenatal Diagnosis, Prognosis, Exome Sequencing, University of California Fetal–Maternal Consortium, University of California, San Francisco Center for Maternal–Fetal Precision Medicine, Medical and Health Sciences, General & Internal Medicine, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract

BackgroundThe cause of most fetal anomalies is not determined prenatally. Exome sequencing has transformed genetic diagnosis after birth, but its usefulness for prenatal diagnosis is still emerging. Nonimmune hydrops fetalis (NIHF), a fetal abnormality that is often lethal, has numerous genetic causes; the extent to which exome sequencing can aid in its diagnosis is unclear.MethodsWe evaluated a series of 127 consecutive unexplained cases of NIHF that were defined by the presence of fetal ascites, pleural or pericardial effusions, skin edema, cystic hygroma, increased nuchal translucency, or a combination of these conditions. The primary outcome was the diagnostic yield of exome sequencing for detecting genetic variants that were classified as either pathogenic or likely pathogenic according to the criteria of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Secondary outcomes were the percentage of cases associated with specific genetic disorders and the proportion of variants that were inherited.ResultsIn 37 of the 127 cases (29%), we identified diagnostic genetic variants, including those for disorders affecting the RAS-MAPK cell-signaling pathway (known as RASopathies) (30% of the genetic diagnoses); inborn errors of metabolism and musculoskeletal disorders (11% each); lymphatic, neurodevelopmental, cardiovascular, and hematologic disorders (8% each); and others. Prognoses ranged from a relatively mild outcome to death during the perinatal period. Overall, 68% of the cases (25 of 37) with diagnostic variants were autosomal dominant (of which 12% were inherited and 88% were de novo), 27% (10 of 37) were autosomal recessive (of which 95% were inherited and 5% were de novo), 1 was inherited X-linked recessive, and 1 was of uncertain inheritance. We identified potentially diagnostic variants in an additional 12 cases.ConclusionsIn this large case series of 127 fetuses with unexplained NIHF, we identified a diagnostic genetic variant in approximately one third of the cases. (Funded by the UCSF Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03412760.).

Published
2020

13. Revisiting the Past: Human Rights Education and Epistemic Justice

Author

Adami, Rebecca

Abstract

Epistemic injustice in human rights education (HRE) can be found in a colonial historical trajectory of human rights that rests on accounts of western agency only. Such narratives overshadow the legacy of Indian and Pakistani freedom fighters and Latin American feminists who negotiated human rights against colonial, patriarchal and racist discourses after the Second World War. Without their contribution a United Nations (UN) rights concept risked being limited to a western trajectory of the 'Rights of Man' that represents a monistic universalism. The paper revisits the history of the United Nations, unearthing historical counternarratives of what a pluralistic universalism of human rights means by adding knowledge about postcolonial feminist subjects who spoke of a positive conception that could reduce injustice.

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2021
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14. Growth Failure Prevalence in Neonates with Gastroschisis : A Statewide Cohort Study

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Boe, Nina, Brown, Erin, Farmer, Diana, Field, Nancy, Hedriana, Herman, Hirose, Shinjiro, James, Gina, Love, Elyse, McLennan, Amelia, Poulain, Francis, Powne, Amy, Morris, Laila Rhee, Rottkamp, Catherine, Saadai, Payam, Sunderji, Sherzana, Tache, Veronique, Yeh, Jay, Allaf, M. Baraa, Bacca, Katie, Carroll, Lisa, Crosland, Brian, Day, Robert, Duffy, Jennifer, Gibbs, David, Hameed, Afshan, Hatfield, Tamara, Iacob, Alexandra, Jolley, Jennifer, Kabeer, Mustafa, Kiciman, Nafiz, Lee, Nancy, Major, Carol, Makhoul, Joshua, Nicolau, Yona, Porto, Manuel, Post, Rebecca, Rumney, Pamela, Spiers, Lizette, Uy, Cherry, Yu, Peter, Ahmad, Irfan, Doshi, Nita, Guner, Yigit, Lai, Wyman, Renella, Pierangelo, Afshar, Yalda, Calkins, Kara, Pluym, Ilina, DeUgarte, Daniel, Devaskar, Uday, Deville, Jaime, Fajardo, Viviana, Garg, Meena, Han, Christina, Holliman, Kerry, Janzen, Carla, Jen, Howard, Kallapur, Suhas, Lee, Steven, Lerman, Steven, Murphy, Aisling, Nguyen, Tina, Rao, Rashmi, Sabnis, Animesh, Satou, Gary, Sklansky, Mark, Strobel, Katie, Sturm, Renea, Tabsh, Khalil, Wong, Thalia, Adami, Rebecca, Anton, Tracy, Ballas, Jerasimos, Bickler, Stephen, Fernandez, Erika, Hull, Andrew, Jacobs, Marni, Johnson, Diana, Kling, Karen, Lamale-Smith, Leah, Lazar, Sarah, Laurent, Louise, Liu, Tzu-Ning, Magallanes, Celestine, Melber, Dora, Parast, Mana, Perez, Mishella, Pretorius, Dolores, Ramos, Sandy, Tarsa, Maryam, Woelkers, Douglas, Zhang-Rutledge, Kathy, Golding, Ian Fraser, Moyer, Laurel, Sun, Heather, Archbold, Katie, Arcilla, Lisa, Bennet, Stacie, Brakeman, Paul, Catenacci, Melissa, Chetty, Shilpa, Copp, Hillary, Corbett, Erin, Dougherty, Valerie, Downum, Sarah, Feldstein, Vickie, Ghaffari, Neda, Goldstein, Ruth, Gonzalez-Velez, Juan, Gonzalez, Veronica, Gosnell, Kristen, Gras, Joanne, Harrison, Michael, Hogan, Whitnee, Hutchinson, Romobia, Irani, Roxanna, Jha, Priyanka, Josiah-Davis, Erna, Keller, Roberta, Kramer, Katelin, Lee, Hanmin, Lianoglou, Billie, Lucero, Jennifer, Lusk, Leslie, MacKenzie, Tippi, Mardy, Anne, Matsuda, Erin, Moon-Grady, Anita, Morgan, Tara, Murtha, Amy, Norton, Mary, Oman, Natalie, Padilla, Benjamin, Patel, Sachi, Peyandi, Shabnam, Phelps, Andrew, Poder, Liina, Post, Annalisa, Rand, Larry, Robles, Diana, Rocha, Frederico, Rosenfeld, Howard, Rosenstein, Melissa, Scudmore, Janice, Shum, Dorothy, Sobhani, Nasim, Sparks, Teresa, Swanson, Katherine, Tesfalul, Martha, Valderramos, Stephanie, Vu, Lan, Yeaton-Massey, Amanda, Strobel, Katie M., Romero, Tahmineh, Kim, Jae H., DeUgarte, Daniel A., and Calkins, Kara L.

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2021
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15. Women and the UN

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Adami, Rebecca and Plesch, Dan

Subjects
Law and society, gender issues, International law, International relations, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Development studies, bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAQ Law & society::LAQG Gender & the law, bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LB International law, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups, bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTF Development studies
Abstract

This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to the international human rights of women throughout the world today. From the founding of the UN and the Latin American feminist movements that pushed for gender equality in the UN Charter, up until the Security Council Resolutions on the role of women in peace and conflict, the volume reflects on how women delegates from different parts of the world have negotiated and disagreed on human rights issues related to gender within the UN throughout time. In doing so it sheds new light on how these hidden historical narratives enrich theoretical studies in international relations and global agency today. In view of contemporary feminist and postmodern critiques of the origin of human rights, uncovering women’s history of the United Nations from both Southern and Western perspectives allows us to consider questions of feminism and agency in international relations afresh. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners of law, diplomacy, history, and development studies, and brought together by a theoretical commentary by the Editors, Women and the UN will appeal to anyone whose research covers human rights, gender equality, international development, or the history of civil society.

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2022
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19. Adherence to and outcomes of a University-Consortium gastroschisis pathway

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Anderson, Jamie, Blanton, Aubrey, Boe, Nina, Brown, Erin, Choy, Michael, Dougherty, Raymond, Farmer, Diana, Field, Nancy, Galganski, Laura, Herman, Hedriana, Hirose, Shinjiro, James, Gina, Love, Elyse, McGahan, John, McLennan, Amelia, Melendres, Giselle, Poulain, Francis, Powne, Amy, Raff, Gary, Morris, Laila Rhee, Rottkamp, Catherine, Saadai, Payam, Schrimmer, David, Sekhohn, Simran, Sunderji, Sherzana, Tache, Veronique, Vanover, Melissa, Yeh, Jay, Allaf, M Baraa, Bacca, Katie, Blumenthal, Elizabeth, Bruce, Kari, Carroll, Lisa, Day, Robert, Duffy, Jennifer, Gibbs, David, Guner, Yigit, Hameed, Afshan, Hatfield, Tamara, Iacob, Alexandra, Jolley, Jennifer, Kabeer, Mustafa, Kiciman, Nafiz, Lee, Nancy, Major, Carol, Makhoul, Joshua, Nicolau, Yona, Patberg, Elizabeth, Penfield, Christina, Porto, Manuel, Rumney, Pamela, Simon, Valeria, Spiers, Lizette, Uy, Cherry, Westermann, Melissa, Yu, Peter, Calkins, Kara, Chung, Judith, Datkhaeva, Ilina, DeUgarte, Daniel, Devaskar, Uday, Deville, Jaime, Gutkin, Rachel, Janzen, Carla, Jen, Howard, Kahn, Daniel, Kallapur, Suhas, Lee, Steven, Lerman, Steven, Maykin, Melanie, Murphy, Aisling, Nguyen, Tina, Niklas, Victoria, Rao, Rashmi, Satou, Gary, Scibetta, Emily, Sklansky, Mark, Stark, Rebecca, Strobel, Katie, Sturm, Renea, Tabsh, Khalil, Yalda, Afshar, Adami, Rebecca, Alshawabkeh, Laith, Anton, Tracy, Ballas, Jerasimos, Bickler, Stephen, Chhabra, Divya, Conturie, Charlotte, Fernandez, Erika, Fernando, Aileen, Finer, Neil, Hull, Andrew, Johnson, Diana, Kim, Jae, Kling, Karen, Lamale-Smith, Leah, Laurent, Louise, Mannino, Frank, Melber, Dora, Perez, Mishella, Picel, Andrew, Pretorius, Dolores, Ramos, Sandy, Sanford, Diana, Tarsa, Maryam, Tran, Vy, Woelkers, Douglas, Zhang-Rutledge, Kathy, Archbold, Katie, Berger, Victoria, Brakeman, Paul, Catenacci, Melissa, Chetty, Shilpa, Copp, Hillary, Edwards, Emily, Feldstein, Vickie, Ghaffari, Neda, Goldstein, Ruth, Gonzalez, Juan, Gosnell, Kristen, Gras, Joanne, Harrison, Michael, Hogan, Whitnee, Hutchinson, Romobia, Irani, Roxanna, Jha, Priyanka, Keller, Roberta, Kohi, Maureen, Kosiv, Katherine, Kramer, Katie, Lee, Hanmin, Lianoglou, Billie, Lucero, Jennifer, MacKenzie, Tippi, Mardy, Anne, Matsuda, Erin, Miller, Edward, Moon-Grady, Anita, Morgan, Tara, Murtha, Amy, Norton, Mary, Oman, Natalie, Padilla, Benjamin, Peyandi, Shabnam, Phelps, Andrew, Poder, Liina, Post, Annalisa, Rand, Larry, Rangwala, Naseem, Rocha, Frederico, Rollins, Mark, Rosenstein, Melissa, Scudmore, Janice, Shulman, Rachel, Shum, Dorothy, Sparks, Teresa, Sperling, Jeffrey, Swanson, Katherine, Tesfalul, Martha, Valderramos, Stephanie, Vu, Lan, Yeaton-Massey, Amanda, Arcilla, Lisa, Bennett, Stacie, Corbett, Erin, Lusk, Leslie, Rosenfeld, Howard, DeUgarte, Daniel A., Calkins, Kara L., and Kramer, Katelin

Published
2020
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22. Commentary

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Adami, Rebecca, primary, Plesch, Dan, additional, and Acharya, Amitav, additional

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2021
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23. Enabling multilingualism or disabling multilinguals? Interrogating linguistic discrimination in Swedish preschool policy

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Adami, Rebecca, Adams Lyngbäck, Liz, Adami, Rebecca, and Adams Lyngbäck, Liz

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In this paper we conduct a poststructural discourse analysis inspired by Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WRP) approach. We explore what kinds of problems are formulated in preschool educational policy on multilingualism, and what underlying assumptions underlie the dominant discourse on language proficiency in Sweden. Serving as a case to discuss how racism, ableism and childism intersect with linguicism, we examine the importance of shifting from a ‘children’s (special) needs’ discourse to a ‘children’s (language) rights’ discourse through a social justice education framework. We draw upon Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s understanding of childism, which refers to prejudice and discrimination against children based on beliefs about their inferiority to adults. The right to and rights in education are constituent upon linguistic rights, upon students learning to use their first language, whether that be minority, indigenous or sign language.

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2024
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25. The Rights of the Child

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Adami, Rebecca, Kaldal, Anna, and Aspán, Margareta

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age discrimination, childism, children's participation rights, children's welfare rights, commission on the Rights of the Child, convention on the Rights of the Child, migrant children, right to be heard, statutory rights, the child’s right to play, bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law::LBBR International human rights law, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSP Age groups::JFSP1 Age groups: children
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How can human rights for children born outside their national jurisdiction with parents deemed as terrorists be safeguarded? In what ways do children risk being discriminated in their welfare rights in Sweden when treated as invisible part of a family? How can we do research on children’s rights in not just ethically sensitive ways but also with respect for children as rights subjects? And what could be a theory on social justice for children? These are questions discussed in studies from different disciplines concerning children’s international human rights, with a special focus on the realization of the CRC in Sweden.

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2023
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26. A Narratable Self as Addressed by Human Rights

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Adami, Rebecca

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The paper extends the critique in earlier research of human rights as exclusive of otherness and difference by introducing the work of Adriana Cavarero (2000) on a "narratable self." Hence, the formation of human rights is thus about the relations between different narratable selves, not just Western ones. A narrative learning, drawing on Cavarero (2000), shifts the focus in human rights learning from learning "about" the other to exposing one's life story narrative through relationality.

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2017
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27. Testimony and Narrative as a Political Relation: The Question of Ethical Judgment in Education

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Adami, Rebecca and Hållander, Marie

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In this article, we explore the role of film in educational settings and argue that testimony and narrative are dependent upon each other for developing ethical judgments. We use the film "12 Angry Men" to enhance our thesis that the emotional response that sometimes is intended in using film as testimonies in classrooms requires a specific listening; a listening that puts pupils at risk when they relate testimonies to their own life narratives. The article raises the importance of listening in training narrative ethos in relation to violence witnessed in film. The article contributes by enhancing an understanding of a relational dimension to testimony and narrative, which, in an Arendtian sense, is also put forward as a political relation.

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2015
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42. The Rights of the Child : Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges

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Adami, Rebecca, Kaldal, Anna, Aspán, Margareta, Adami, Rebecca, Kaldal, Anna, and Aspán, Margareta

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How can human rights for children born outside their national jurisdiction with parents deemed as terrorists be safeguarded? In what ways do children risk being discriminated in their welfare rights in Sweden when treated as invisible part of a family? How can we do research on children’s rights in not just ethically sensitive ways but also with respect for children as rights subjects? And what could be a theory on social justice for children? These are questions discussed in studies from different disciplines concerning children’s international human rights, with a special focus on the realization of the CRC in Sweden.

Published
2023

43. Childism : On adult resistance against children's rights

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Adami, Rebecca and Adami, Rebecca

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The concept of childism is, in this chapter, used primarily as a theoretical approach to analyse adult resistance against the realisation of children’s rights. Childism can help us to understand children’s exposure to negative prejudices, attitudes and discriminatory structures in society. This chapter argues, that in order to address discrimination against children on a systemic level, a critical approach in child rights studies on negative beliefs against children is needed to illuminate prejudice ingrained in the ways in which policies and laws are formulated on a structural level. By studying discourses that lead to abuse of children we may better understand underlying reasons to the challenges facing a respect for children’s rights internationally. Reasons and arguments given for why children are denied basic rights and freedoms can be systematically examined over time by addressing how adult’s prejudice about children lead to age-based discrimination against children. These intersectional understandings of subordination may inform affirmative policy needed for realising the rights of the child. The chapter calls for further empirical studies that interrelate violations of children’s rights with different overlapping forms of prejudice and discrimination against children.

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2023
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46. Re-Thinking Relations in Human Rights Education: The Politics of Narratives

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Adami, Rebecca

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Human Rights Education (HRE) has traditionally been articulated in terms of cultivating better citizens or world citizens. The main preoccupation in this strand of HRE has been that of bridging a gap between universal notions of a human rights subject and the actual locality and particular narratives in which students are enmeshed. This preoccupation has focused on "learning about the other" in order to improve relations between plural "others" and "us" and reflects educational aims of national identity politics in citizenship education. The article explores the learning of human rights "through" narratives "in" relations, drawing on Hannah Arendt and Sharon Todd. For this re-thinking of relations in learning human rights, the article argues that HRE needs to address both competing historical narratives on the drafting of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) as well as unique life narratives of learners.

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2014
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47. Toward Cosmopolitan Ethics in Teacher Education: An Ontological Dimension of Learning Human Rights

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Adami, Rebecca

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There is a globalization trend in teacher education, emphasizing the role of teachers to make judgments based on human rights in their teaching profession. Rather than emphasizing the epistemological dimension of acquiring knowledge "about" human rights through teacher education, an ontological dimension is emphasized in this paper of what it means to become a professional teacher. An ontological dimension of "learning to become" can be captured in critical examination of a cosmopolitan awareness of teachers in relation to judgment and justice. I read the critique through studies on human rights in teacher education, which transforms notions of openness and respect in relations marked by difference.

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2014
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48. In Reply

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Adami, Rebecca R., Grundy, Maureen E., Poretti, Andrea, Felling, Ryan J., Lemmon, Monica, and Graham, Ernest M.

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2017
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50. Philosophy of education in a new key : Constraints and possibilities in present times with regard to dignity

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Roth, Klas, Mollvik, Lia, Alshoufani, Rama, Adami, Rebecca, Dineen, Katy, Majlesi, Fariba, Peters, Michael A., Tesar, Marek, Roth, Klas, Mollvik, Lia, Alshoufani, Rama, Adami, Rebecca, Dineen, Katy, Majlesi, Fariba, Peters, Michael A., and Tesar, Marek

Abstract

Human beings as imperfect rational beings face continuous challenges, one of them has to do with the lack of recognizing and respecting our inner dignity in present times. In this collective paper, we address the overall theme—Philosophy of Education in a New Key (see Peters et al., 2020) from various perspectives related to dignity. We address in particular some of the constraints and possibilities with regard to this issue in various settings such as education and society at large. Klas Roth discusses, for example, that it is not uncommon that the value of human beings has to do with their price in, inter alia, their social, cultural, political and economic settings throughout the world. He argues that such a focus does not necessarily draw attention to the inner dignity of human beings, but that human beings ought to do so in education and society at large. Lia Mollvik discusses views of inner and outer dignity, and argues that there needs to be a balance in between them, and that the balance ought to be acknowledged in education. Rama Alshoufani discusses the classification of human beings in terms of various diagnoses related to the asserted dysfunction of the brain, and she argues that such classification does paradoxically not necessarily respect people with such diagnoses as ends in themselves. On the contrary, she argues that their inner dignity is not respected, but that it should be. Other such failures are due to the lack of inner dignity when it comes to Children’s rights as discussed by Rebecca Adami, and to the lack of recognition of human beings’ vulnerability as discussed by Katy Dineen. Fariba Majlesi criticizes a too strong emphasis on substantive notions of humanist education, which seem to hinder new ways of thinking; she argues that it is necessary to acknowledge the latter in and through education in order to preserve the dignity of human beings. Dignity, it is argued throughout the paper, has an inner moral worth, and is beyond price.

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2022
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