Combining tractography and cortical measures to test system-specific hypotheses in multiple sclerosis

The objective was to test three motor system-specific hypotheses in multiple sclerosis patients: (i) corticospinal tract and primary motor cortex imaging measures differ between multiple sclerosis patients and controls; (ii) in patients, these measures correlate with disability; (iii) in patients, corticospinal tract measures correlate with measures of the ipsilateral primary motor cortex

Childhood in Sociology and Society: The US Perspective

The field of childhood studies in the US is comprised of cross-disciplinary researchers who theorize and conduct research on both children and youth. US sociologists who study childhood largely draw on the childhood literature published in English. This article focuses on American sociological contributions, but notes relevant contributions from non-American scholars published in English that have shaped and fueled American research. This article also profiles the institutional support of childhood research in the US, specifically outlining the activities of the ‘Children and Youth’ Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and assesses the contributions of this area of study for sociology as well as the implications for an interdisciplinary field.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Children's Geographies Embedding the Global Womb: Global Child Labour and the New Policy Agenda Embedding the Global Womb: Global Child Labour and the New Policy Agenda

ABSTRACT Unevenly distributed symbolic resources misrecognize children's lifeworlds in favour of a mythical global order. As new policy agenda representations of child labour in the global south hold out the promise of a labour-free global childhood, children's dayto-day work routines are denied. These routines are typically located in hidden landscapes of reproduction (the 'global womb'). Retracing the historical and territorial itinerary of child labour I highlight the child saving rituals set in place to demarcate today's borderline between the global womb and global childhood. Children's lifeworlds are trapped in the logic of a self-reproducing workforce for which rituals of child labour abolition summon up the ever-receding mirage of a better life

A Child-Centered Approach to Children’s Rights Law. Living Rights and Translations

A child-centered approach to children’s rights law recognizes that children shape, interpret, and practice what their rights are and that they have the right to do so. This chapter starts with critiquing essentialist tendencies that diminish children’s active engagement with their rights and discusses how the concepts of living rights and translations may help provide children the space needed to negotiate meanings and influence interpretations of their rights. The concept of living rights contends that the meaning, interpretation, and practice of children’s rights constitute a living, dynamic process. The concept of translations challenges the one-way idea of implementation to analyze what happens with children’s rights in the complex encounters of children’s and other actors’ perspectives. Taken together, living rights and translations help to understand the multiple readings of children’s rights, including those of children, at work in a given situation

Navigating between research, teaching and activism in children’s rights and childhood studies

Building on the various encounters we had with Manfred Liebel over the last 20 years, in this chapter we explore how we have experienced the relations and possible tensions between research, teaching and activism in children’s rights and childhood studies in our own research and teaching. Liebel has provided both a critique of as well as alternative approaches to children’s rights and child labour norms and policy. His critical scholarship has not been limited to challenging fixed interpretative frames but has also explored alternative frameworks to reconstruct social realities, in particular in relation to children’s work. Even if, as academics, we harbour reservations about combining research and activism, we can only praise Liebel for commending the epistemic strength of working children’s organizations and stimulating our own imagination