[CALL FOR PAPERS] Dossier "Rights of children, adolescents and young people"

1 Presentation

The InSURgência: rights and social movements journal (ISSN: 2447-6684), linked to the Instituto de Pesquisa, Direitos e Movimentos Sociais – IPDMS, aims to disseminate unpublished theoretical production concerning the theme “rights and social movements”.

With the objective of promoting research developed with, by and for social movements, mobilizing researchers from Brazil and other countries in different areas of knowledge, the Instituto de Pesquisa, Direitos e Movimentos Sociais - IPDMS founded the InSURgência: rights and social movements journal (ISSN: 2447-6684), an international journal that promotes unpublished theoretical and/or empirical productions committed to critical and liberating knowledge on the subject of rights and social movements, in the Brazilian, Latin American and international contexts.

For the second edition of 2023 of the InSURgência Review (v. 10, n. 2, jul./dec. 2023), the Dossier’s organizing committee invites the academic community, researchers and social movements activists to send their contributions in the form of a scientific article with the theme “Rights of children, adolescents and young people”, according to the guidelines below.

 

2 Dossier: “Rights of children, adolescents and young people”

Since the enactment of the Federal Constitution in 1988, two autonomous branches of law have emerged, initially the Law of Children and Adolescents, and more recently the Law of Youth, which already have extensive laws, with the Child and Adolescent Statue (Law No. 8.069/1990) as the center of the system and Youth Statue (Law No. 12.852/2013), to which are added other international and national norms of human rights, such as The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the Ibero-American Convention on the Rights of Youth, the National Socio-Educational System, the Legal Framework for Early Childhood, the National System for the Guarantee of the Rights of Children and Adolescents Victims or Witnesses of Violence and the National Youth System, among others.

Despite of the normative changes arising from the constitutional paradigm of the integral protection of children, adolescents and young people, the social reality of this segment of the population and of its public policies is still marked by violations of rights and adverse conditions of access to public policies, in addition to the power relations within family and community. This has become even worse with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. From family environments and education that considers these subjects as subjects of knowledge, rather than objects of control and exploitation, including sexual ones; the performance of Guardianship Councils in situations involving, for example, pregnancy during childhood and adolescence; the penalist and punitive bias of the police force’s actions with black youth and the interpretation of the infraction act and the socio-educational measures; the centralizing action of the Judiciary; the absence or difficulty in the circulation of other narratives, such as those of traditional peoples and communities, to pluralize cultural conceptions about subjects and ways of meeting their rights. Ultimately, the situations in which the Rights of Children, Adolescents and Youth People are called upon to think or rethink social relations, institutional practices and the regulations themselves are varied and pressing, in view of the openness or not of relationships to participatory and democratic listening of the subjects of rights of children, adolescents and young people.

With this, in the present call for the dossier, we hope to stimulate the participation of female and male researchers, as well as members of social movements, to discuss the conditions of access, materialization and political dispute of the rights of children, adolescents and young people, encouraging the submission of works of interdisciplinary character and that seek to understand such subjects in an intersectional perspective, that is, with analysis that relate generation/age to race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, migration, person with disability and/or religion.

 

We seek, in particular, the presentation of scientific articles that discuss:

1. The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the living conditions and rights of children, adolescents and young people;
2. Rights of children, adolescents and young people between democracy and fascism; scientific autonomy and specific hermeneutics of the Law of Children and Adolescents and Law of Youth; the right of listening and participation of children, adolescents and young people; social inclusion of the child citizen; right to participate in political life; youth protagonism, care policies and intersectional action; critical perspectives on adultcentrism, minorism, ableism and the reduction of the age for criminal responsibility;
3. Diversity of being a child, adolescent and young person and their demands at the intersections with race, peoples and traditional communities, class, gender, sexuality, migration, people with disabilities and/or religion;
4. Researches about or with children, adolescents and young people related to the peculiar condition of the developing person, family and community life, institutional care, early childhood, coping with violence, protection measures, infractions and socio-educational measures, infractions and socio-educational measures, work, education, health, leisure, sport, culture, mobility, territory and environment;
5. The praxis of popular movements in the resistance for the rights of children, adolescents and young people, and the challenges of social control and the public budget for the planning, implementation and monitoring of public policies for children, adolescents and young people.

This call encourages the application of male and female researchers from different disciplines, backgrounds and experiences who approach the problems outlined here from a critical perspective and with the desire to contribute with ideas to face the challenges posed by overcoming the social problems that affect children, adolescents and young people.

 

3 Conditions for submission

To send your contribution, you must register on the InSURgência website. The contribution must be original and unpublished, and not under evaluation in another journal; otherwise, it must be justified in “Comments to editor”. The submission file must be in editable format (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF), without any type of authorship identification. The papper must contain title, abstract and keywords in 2 languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French or English). The content of the papper must contain an introduction, development, conclusion and bibliographic references (not necessarily with suc titles), written in an single language preferred by the autor, between Portuguese, Spanish, French or English. The formatting of the papper should follow the model avaiable on the review’s website.

As for authorship, there are no restrictions on quantity or degree. The same author may send up to 2 (two) contributions to the “Dossier” and “In defense of research” sections (free articles section). Contributions to the other sections are unlimited: “Generating themes” (Entries section); “Political Poetics” (section of texts and artistic manifestations) and “Nobebook of return” (section of text reviews).

All submissions must follow the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in “Submission and guidelines for authors”.

Deadline for submission or works to the dossier: February 6, 2023.

Organization: Assis da Costa Oliveira, Ana Radig Morais, Eder Fernandes Santana.