Resumen de The global as a field: : children�s rights advocacy as a transnational practice
Jouni Häkli, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
Research on transnationalism has called into question the much criticized but persistent dichotomy between the nation-state space as an �inside�, and the global realm as its constitutive �outside�. This paper contributes to the emerging scholarship on transnational elites working at the intersection of the national and the global by assessing practices related to children�s rights advocacy. Particular attention is paid to the drafting and the enforcement of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child since the 1980s. On the basis of a Bourdieuan theorization of social fields we argue that some aspects of children�s rights advocacy can be understood as reflecting the dynamism of the transnational field of children�s rights. In somewhat broader terms the paper proposes that the formative logic of elite-driven globalization is a social and political dynamism related to the rules of competition and collaboration that structure inclusions, exclusions, and awards in transnational fields.
