PUBLIC DISSEMINATION
CHILD SOLDIERS: VICTIMS OR PERPETRATORS OF CRIME?
Justice Everywhere, February 2022.
The existence of children enlisted in armed groups poses difficult questions to moral and political philosophers regarding our assumptions about what childhood is, or the relationship between victimhood and criminality, or autonomy, dependence and vulnerability. This post aims to briefly introduce how discourses on child soldiers can be morally problematic. The post is based on a forthcoming chapter (co-authored by Alexandra Echeverry) on child soldiers in Colombia.
FROM ARMCHAIR TO ENGAGED PHILOSOPHY
Justice Everywhere, December 2020
While there are, indeed, benefits to armchair philosophising, I want here to briefly explore its limitations, and to encourage the use of an alternative philosophical method, especially when working on topics or issues that are relevant to our society, our political system, and our understanding of justice. Namely, I want to encourage direct engagement with our subjects of research, not only as sources of information, but as structural contributors to the development of our research projects and its priorities.
WHAT (IF ANYTHING) IS WRONG WITH CHILD LABOUR?
Justice Everywhere, March, 2020
If I were to ask whether you consider that there is something wrong with child labour, the standard response would be, “Definitely yes”. At least within our contemporary liberal-minded existences in the Global North, imagining a child who spends most of her waking day working in the fields, a factory or in the city streets seems deplorable. Children should not work; work is bad for children. In this post, I want to offer a superficial exploration at what is inside this intuition. What is it that sparks our moral concern when we think about the lives of children who work? And, what is the appropriate normative response to address the problems that affect child workers?...
CHILD POVERTY THROUGH PHILOSOPHERS’ EYES
Justice Everywhere, October 2019
In this post, Justice Everywhere’s Nicolás Brando and his co-editor Gottfried Schweiger introduce their recently-published collection on philosophy and child poverty.
WHY SHOULD CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE?
Justice Everywhere, April 2019
The debate on lowering the age of enfranchisement has become a hot topic during the last couple of decades. Countries like Argentina, Austria, Brazil or Scotland, for example, have lowered their voting age to 16. But what if we go a bit further, and were to abolish age-thresholds for enfranchisement altogether? Is it such an absurd idea to claim that a 6-year-old should be allowed to vote? What reasons do we have to justify her exclusion? And, what are the reasons for claiming that she should have this right ensured?
