John Wall
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Childhood Studies, Rutgers University
Founder and Co-Director of the Childism Institute
Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Children's Voting Colloquium
Selected Articles and Chapters
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).
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.
2022. “The Case for Children’s Voting.” In Exploring Children’s Suffrage: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Ageless Voting, ed. John Wall (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
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.
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.
