Book review: Childhood on the move. From adultcentrism to emancipation

Abstract

The work is an overview of the book "Children on the Move. From adultcentrism to emancipation”. The material chosen for this analysis is framed within proposals that invite us to review the place that society has historically given to children and adolescents, in relation to adults and adulthood. The development of the subject is carried out from the analysis and discussion of conceptual proposals, but to a greater extent, the reader will find chapters in which what stands out are the voices of protagonists who, from a confrontational attitude to the adult-centric and capitalist system, have been working on social movements that promote children and adolescents as protagonists, assuming the need for them to also participate in the resolution of different social problems that concern them directly. The book covers different aspects related to the need to advance in the emancipation of children and adolescents with respect to adult-centrism. It invites us to break with a certain accommodating stance of the political, academic and scientific world, parts of a system that sustains, in a hegemonic way, positions and concepts that have blocked the possibility of thinking about the situation of children and adolescents with respect to the adult-centric system.