University:
University College London
Course:
LAWS0030 | Access to Justice and Community Engagement
Academic year:

2024
Views:

498

Pages:

2
Author:

N. Azzahra

Childrens Right to Vote Date: November 9, 2022 Presented by: John Wall Childism ( Institute, Rutgers University) A Basis in Childism - Empowering children by critiquing norms and structures - A critical theory analogous to feminism, critical race theory, decolonialize, posthumanism - Deconstructing adultism/patriarchy - Reconstructing social imaginations (e.g. around deep interdependence and empowered inclusion) Defining Competence - Adultism: independent rationality - Childism: interdependent relationality - Truly democratic competence = desire to vote  Casting a ballot  Examining one's own and others' views  Making available political choices Building Strong Democracies 1. Responding to children 2. Benefitting adults and societies 3. Strengthening democracies The Proxy-Claim Vote  A childish (non-adultism) restructuring of the vote as deeply interdependent  Age eliminated as a discriminatory factor (like gender, race, ethnicity, class, wealth, etc. in history)  Proxy: for anyone, child or adult, for whom voting is dependent on others (babies, young children, cognitively disabled, suffering dementia, hospitalized, traveling, etc.)  Claim: for anyone of any age desiring to exercise their right to vote independently

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