Introduction
Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. Teaching and research expertise on issues of children's rights and security in global political perspective, the militarization of childhood, and childhood as a technology of (global) governance.
Expert
J. Marshall Beier is Professor of Political Science at McMaster University. In his current research he investigates issues around children’s political subjecthood, visual and affective economies of children in abject circumstances, and imagined childhood as a technology of global governance. His publications include: Childhoods in Peace and Conflict, ed. with Jana Tabak (Palgrave Macmillan 2021); Discovering Childhood in International Relations, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); Childhood and the Production of Security, ed. (Routledge, 2017); The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 2014). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Studies on Security and his work has appeared in journals including Childhood, Children’s Geographies, Contemporary Security Policy, Critical Military Studies, Global Governance, Global Responsibility to Protect, International Political Sociology, International Politics, International Studies Review, Journal of Human Rights, Security Dialogue, and Third World Quarterly.
Fields of expertise: Participation, Social change / social transformations, Youth