Adultism
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In this groundbreaking book, the authors provide a comprehensive introduction to adultism from an academic perspective while also emphasising its practical implications.
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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781447378129
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 10 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Policy Press
Illustration: 13 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 332
About the Author
Manfred Liebel is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin and Honorary Professor of Intercultural Studies on Childhoods and Children’s Rights at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
Philip Meade is Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and in Child Protection at Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin.
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