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Article 31 – the Forgotten Right to Cultural Life and the Arts
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Child and Youth Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1519-0068
Number of Authors: 12023 (English)In: The Rights of the Child: Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges / [ed] Rebecca Adami; Anna Kaldal; Margareta Aspán, Brill Nijhoff, 2023, p. 184-199Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The CRC is said to be read as a whole, but each article might be scrutinized separately to see in what ways it generates important matters for fulfilling children’s rights. In this chapter I suggest that the interpretation of Article 31 – the child’s right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities, and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts – can go further than the CRC Committee (2013), which stresses the importance of the article by referring to the child’s development, socialization and learning for the future. Using the concepts of epistemic justice and encounters, the right to arts and cultural life is here discussed as rights that cannot fully be defined by only the duty-bearers. To accomplish the imperatives of Article 31, it is crucial to involve children’s own thoughts of what is meaningful and important: what is challenging, or enchanting, has to be understood from the perspective of the experiencing person. If the child is seen as an agent, co-constructing the social world, the right to cultural life and to arts opens up for accentuating the similarities between children and adults, both sharing curiosity and moments of “wonder-at-the-world” (Bennett, 2001).

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Brill Nijhoff, 2023. p. 184-199
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Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children's Rights, ISSN 2405-834 ; 17
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Child and Youth Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-216653DOI: 10.1163/9789004511163_020Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85168152966ISBN: 9789004511163 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-216653DiVA, id: diva2:1752520
Available from: 2023-04-23 Created: 2023-04-23 Last updated: 2023-10-16Bibliographically approved

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