Picking and choosing what a child should be allowed to read can be complicated. Should children be free to read anything they want, or should parents and educators be more selective about what books their kids can get their hands on? This issue is particularly divisive if it involves children’s horror fiction, which is populated by scary, violent, and unsettling tales. This article discusses the different sides to this argument and it will also suggest a way of approaching scary books that can be both pedagogical and enjoyable for a young audience.
Category: Book Reviews
Evidence and Bias for human rights – A review of Kathryn Sikkink’s Evidence for Hope
Reading some of the literature might lead to an overly pessimistic assessment of the state of human rights in the world today.
Review of John Hobson’s “Eurocentric Conception of World Politics”
By Oskari Mantere. Conventionally, mainstream scholars of politics and international relations (IR) have believed that they pursue “scientific” and objective … More
The words of Olga Tokarczuk
By Julia BÄ…k. October 10th turned into a day of celebration for Poland, as Olga Tokarczuk was awarded a Noble … More
Book Review – Decolonising International Law
By Oskari Mantere. Reviewed work: Sundhya, P. (2011) Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality. Cambridge; … More
Dual Book Review – Relationships Between Human Rights & Decolonisation
By Oskari Mantere. Arguably, the two most important developments of twentieth-century history are decolonisation – which rendered the empires of … More
A Review of Pitts’ Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire
By Oskari Mantere. Almost by definition, international law is universal. This belief seems nearly tautological, thus true to the point … More
Moyn, S. (2018), Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
By Oskari Mantere. When historians became interested in the history of human rights in the 1990s and early 2000s, they … More
The Impossibility of Global Ethics – A Review of Michael Ignatieff’s ‘The Ordinary Virtues’
By Oskari Mantere. Michael Ignatieff’s The Ordinary Virtues takes the reader on a safari through some of the most fragile … More