Empowering children by transforming norms

2025. “Theorizing Adultism: From Adult Domination to Normative Disempowerment," Childhood: A Jouranl of Global Child Research, 2025 0(0):1-17.

2025. “Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age Discrimination,” in Aoife Daly, Pernilla Leviner, and Rebecca Thorburn Stern (eds.), Treated Like a Child – Age Discrimination and Children’s Rights (Brill, forthcoming).

2025. “Children’s Rights from a Childist Perspective: Theorizing Social Empowerment,” in Valeria Llobet, Didier Reynaert, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, and Wouter Vandenhole (eds.), Towards a Field of Critical Children’s Rights Studies: A New Handbook (Routledge, forthcoming).

2025. Tanu Biswas and John Wall, “Childism for the Very Young,” in Sara Michael Luna, Brian L. Wright, and Marek Tesar (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

2024. "Infancismo y las Políticas de Empoderamiento Social" [“Childism and the Politics of Social Empowerment”], Sociedad e Infancias, 8(2), 205-213.

2024. “The Health and Wellbeing Case for Children’s Suffrage,” Neena Modi, Anandini Dar, Lucia Rabello de Castro, Robin Chen, and John Wall, Lancet Child and Adolescent 8:251-252.

2023. “Adultism and Voting Age Discrimination,” Harvard Human Rights Journal 36: 329-340.

2023. “Childism: Transforming Critical Theory in Response to Children.” In Sarada Balagopalan, John Wall, and Karen Wells, eds., Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies (New York: Bloomsbury), 208-222.

2023. “The Legal Case for Children’s Right to Vote in the United States,” Sonja Grover, John Wall, and Robin Chen, International Journal of Children’s Rights 31:791-810.

2023. “Childism and Philosophy: A Conceptual Co-Exploration,” Tanu Biswas, John Wall, Hanne Warming, Ohad Zehavi, David Kennedy, Karin Murris, Walter Kohan, Britta Saal, and Toby Rollo, Policy Futures in Education 2(5):741-759.

2022. “The Case for Children’s Voting.” In Exploring Children’s Suffrage: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Ageless Voting, ed. John Wall (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

2020. “Empowered Inclusion: Theorizing Global Justice for Children and Youth,” Jonathan Josefsson and John Wall, Globalizations 17:6, 1043-1060.

2019. “From Childhood Studies to Childism: Reconstructing the Scholarly and Social Imaginations,” Children’s Geographies, special issue edited by Hanne Warming on Society and Social Changes through the Prism of Childhood, 17(6):1-15.

2019. “Theorizing Children’s Global Citizenship: Reconstructionism and the Politics of Deep Interdependence,” Global Studies of Childhood 9(1):5-17.

2017. “The Global Human Rights of Modern Child Slaves.” In Anna Mae Duane, ed., Child Slavery before and after Emancipation: An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 270-286.

2014. “Democratizing Democracy: The Road from Women’s to Children’s Suffrage,” International Journal of
Human Rights, Special Issue, edited by Sonja Grover 18.6: 646–659.

2013. “Childism: The Challenge of Childhood to Ethics and the Humanities.” In Anna Mae Duane, ed., The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the New Humanities (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press), pp. 68-84.

2013. “All the World’s a Stage: Childhood and the Play of Being.” In Emily Ryall, Wendy Russell, and Malcolm MacLean, eds., The Philosophy of Play (New York: Routledge), pp. 32-43.

2012. “Can Democracy Represent Children? Toward a Politics of Difference,” Childhood: A Journal of Global
Child Research 19.1: 86-100.

2010. “Childism and the Ethics of Responsibility.” In Annemie Dillen and Didier Pollefeyt, eds., Children’s Voices. Children’s Perspectives in Ethics, Theology, and Religious Education (Leuven, Belgium: BETL, Peeters-Publishing), pp. 237-265.

2008. “Human Rights in Light of Childhood,” International Journal of Children’s Rights 16.4:523-543.

2007: “Imitatio Creatoris: The Hermeneutical Primordiality of Creativity in Moral Life,” Journal of Religion 87.1:21-42.

2007. “Fatherhood, Childism, and the Creation of Society,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75.1:52-76.

2007. “Rethinking Human Rights in Light of Children.” In Trygve Wyller and Usha S. Nayar, eds., The Given Child: The Religious Contribution to Children’s Citizenship (Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), pp. 105-124.

2006. “Childhood Studies, Hermeneutics, and Theological Ethics,” Journal of Religion 86.4:523-548.

2005. “The Creative Imperative: Ethics and the Formation of Life in Common,” Journal of Religious Ethics 33.1:45-64.

2003. “Phronesis, Poetics, and Moral Creativity,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 6.3:317-341.

2003. “Animals and Innocents: Theological Reflections on the Meaning and Purpose of Child-Rearing,” Theology
Today 59.4:559-582.

2002. “Moral Meaning: Beyond the Good and the Right?” In Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought, ed. John Wall, William Schweiker, and David Hall (New York: Routledge), pp. 47-63.

2001. “The Economy of the Gift: Paul Ricoeur’s Significance for Theological Ethics,” Journal of Religious Ethics 29.2:235-260.