Rebecca Adami Senior lecturer

Associate Professor in Education since 2019.

Award winner of the 2022 Bertha Lutz Prize for highest quality public writing and research on women in diplomacy by the Diplomatic Studies Section (DPLST) of the International Studies Association (ISA).

Women in the UN history of human rights

Critical child rights theory

Books and edited volumes

Adami, R. (2025).Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child: The myth of a happy childhood. Routledge

Adami, R; Kaldal, A & Aspán, M (Eds.) (2023).The Rights of the Child: Ethical, Political and Legal Challenges. London: Brill.

Adami, R and Plesch, D. (2022)Women and the UN: a new history of women's international human rights. London: Routledge

Adami, R. (2019).Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Routledge

Journal articles

Adami, R. and Adams Lyngbäck, L. (2024). Enabling multiligualism or disabling multilinguals? Interrogating linguistic discrimination in Swedish preschool policy. Human Rights Education Review, Vol 7, Issue 1, pp.5-25

Adami, R. (2022). The Swedish Middle Way and UN Experiences in Domestic Politics: Exploring international welfare feminism during early Cold War years, NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Vol 30, Issue 1, pp. 20-34

Adami, R. (2021). Revisiting the Past: Human Rights Education and Epistemic Justice, Human Rights Education Review, https://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.4486

Adami, R and Dineen, K. (2021). Discourses of Childism: How COVID-19 Has Unveiled Prejudice, Discrimination and Social Injustice against Children in the Everyday,The International Journal of Children’s Rights, Vol 29, Issue 2, pp.353-370

Chapters

Adami, R. (2023). Childism: On adult resistance against children’s rights in Adami; Aspán and Kaldal (Eds.), The Rights of the Child: Ethical, Political and Legal Challenges, OA: Brill

Adami, R; Plesch, D & Acharya, A. (2022). Commentary: The restorative archeology of knowledge about the role of women in the history of the UN – Theoretical implications for international relations in Rebecca Adami & Dan Plesch, Women and the UN: A new history of women’s international human rights, London and New York: Routledge, pp.161-168

Adami, R. (2022). International Welfare Feminism: CSW navigating Cold War tensions 1949 in Rebecca Adami & Dan Plesch, Women and the UN: A new history of women’s international human rights, London and New York: Routledge, pp.55-68

Adami, R. (2018). The Critical Potential of Using Counter Narratives in Human Rights Education in Michalinos Zembylas & Andre Keet (Eds.) Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education, Bloomsbury.