Overview
Despite global advances in children's rights, young people are routinely disregarded, overpowered and excluded. This persistent discrimination - known as adultism - permeates family life, education, urban design, legal systems and political discourse. In this groundbreaking book, the authors provide a comprehensive introduction to adultism from an academic perspective while also emphasising its practical implications. Drawing on rich, real-world examples and research, they analyse it as a systemic form of discrimination, exploring how it evolved and is reproduced through language, institutions and everyday practices. Timely, accessible and urgent, this book offers a vision for resistance and transformation, outlining how adultism can be challenged - by both adults and young people - to co-create a more equitable future.
- | Author: Manfred Liebel
- | Publisher: Policy Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 07, 2026
- | Number of Pages: 332 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 144737813X
- | ISBN-13: 9781447378136
