D Bendo
Biographic Data
| ID | 39933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Bendo |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bendo |
| SIGNATURE | BENDO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1342-2256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘It hurts when they don’t listen to you’
This paper documents the analysis of qualitative data, collected from focus groups and interviews with diverse young people ages 18–24 from across Canada. It analyzes the spectrum of emotions surrounding their perceptions and experiences of what constitutes youth-led climate activism and their understanding of participatory involvement in climate activism. Findings from the qualitative data reveal the complexities associated with the intersection…
Legal Counsel, Moral Expectations, and Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) is the law that governs the Canadian youth justice system and applies to young people between the ages of twelve and seventeen. The YCJA's Declaration of Principle broadly states that measures taken against young people should consider their "special requirements." Such vague provisions have led young people with mental health issues and intellectual and developmental disabilities to not receive much-needed a…
Child Rights and Realities
This paper explores how children’s rights are operationalised in practice, specifically by Canadian child and youth advocate offices (all 12 offices across Canada), international children’s commissioners’ offices (in Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Norway and Denmark), and their institutional structures. A total of 24 participants took part in the study, including 12 current child and youth advocates from the Canadian Council o…
Unlocking the Power of Listening
In this paper we situate the act of listening in the context of children’s rights whilst highlighting the benefits of this practice on the psychological and neurological development of children. After unpacking the concept of listening and the role it plays in adult-child communication, we share the results of a scoping review where we examined neuroscientific studies pointing to the benefits of listening and what relevance such evidence has for …
Compensating for Stigma
We examine 4,300 advertisements of children who were featured in Today’s Child, a daily newspaper column written by Helen Allen in the Toronto Telegram and Toronto Star (1964–1982) and syndicated across North America. We highlight how stigma and values were attributed to adoptive children featured in these advertisements. Our findings reveal how the advertisements perpetuated and attached stigma to these children and how this stigma had to be com…
Post-covid” Childhood-s
Despite the increased risks and vulnerabilities that children and young people face due to the Coronavirus ( covid -19), they are also some of the most active in their participatory responses to this global emergency. Drawing on transdisciplinarity, this paper considers how covid -19 has opened up new spaces and opportunities for the participation of children. For example, young people across the globe have been actively involved in raising digit…
Roles, Responsibilities, and Rights
Limited academic literature has explored the responsibilities of Provincial and Territorial Child and Youth Advocates in Canada. This paper analyses the responsibilities that constitute the role of Canadian Provincial and Territorial Child and Youth Advocates, as well as the forces that impact and shape these responsibilities. A total of 17 participants, including current and former members of the Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates ( c…
Parallel lines? Childhood discourses emphasized by the children's rights movement and the emerging field of children's rights studies
This article is a response to Karl Hanson's call for the emancipation of children's rights studies from the children's rights movement. It explores the emergence of the children's rights movement and children's rights studies and analyzes some of the key childhood discourses that are emphasized by these two different approaches. As a way to understand why Hanson calls for emancipation, and in an attempt to begin to emancipate children's rights st…
Advertising ‘Happy’ Children
We analyse 4300 advertisements of children featured in the Today's Child column, a daily written by Helen Allen in The Toronto Telegram and The Toronto Star from 1964 to 1982, to understand how the Canadian public became accepting of the adoption of Indigenous children. While children of all ethnic backgrounds were featured, the Indigenous children who were displayed were part of a larger system of child removal, known as the ‘Sixties Scoop’. We …
The Role of Canada’s Child and Youth Advocates
The role of Canadian Child Advocates has been under-researched by academics and civil society alike, and the following paper addresses this knowledge deficit with findings from a graduate study (Bendo, 2016) reviewing their legislative and professional roles through a sociology of childhood lens. The aim was to investigate the Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates ( cccya ), and data was derived through a discourse analysis of legal, poli…
The Role of Canada’s Child and Youth Advocates
The role of Canadian Child Advocates has been under-researched by academics and civil society alike, and the following paper addresses this knowledge deficit with findings from a graduate study (Bendo, 2016) reviewing their legislative and professional roles through a sociology of childhood lens. The aim was to investigate the Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates ( cccya ), and data was derived through a discourse analysis of legal, poli…
Post-covid” Childhood-s
Despite the increased risks and vulnerabilities that children and young people face due to the Coronavirus ( covid -19), they are also some of the most active in their participatory responses to this global emergency. Drawing on transdisciplinarity, this paper considers how covid -19 has opened up new spaces and opportunities for the participation of children. For example, young people across the globe have been actively involved in raising digit…
Parallel lines? Childhood discourses emphasized by the children's rights movement and the emerging field of children's rights studies
This article is a response to Karl Hanson's call for the emancipation of children's rights studies from the children's rights movement. It explores the emergence of the children's rights movement and children's rights studies and analyzes some of the key childhood discourses that are emphasized by these two different approaches. As a way to understand why Hanson calls for emancipation, and in an attempt to begin to emancipate children's rights st…
The Role of Canada’s Child and Youth Advocates
The role of Canadian Child Advocates has been under-researched by academics and civil society alike, and the following paper addresses this knowledge deficit with findings from a graduate study (Bendo, 2016) reviewing their legislative and professional roles through a sociology of childhood lens. The aim was to investigate the Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates ( cccya ), and data was derived through a discourse analysis of legal, poli…
Advertising ‘Happy’ Children
We analyse 4300 advertisements of children featured in the Today's Child column, a daily written by Helen Allen in The Toronto Telegram and The Toronto Star from 1964 to 1982, to understand how the Canadian public became accepting of the adoption of Indigenous children. While children of all ethnic backgrounds were featured, the Indigenous children who were displayed were part of a larger system of child removal, known as the ‘Sixties Scoop’. We …
Parallel lines? Childhood discourses emphasized by the children's rights movement and the emerging field of children's rights studies
This article is a response to Karl Hanson's call for the emancipation of children's rights studies from the children's rights movement. It explores the emergence of the children's rights movement and children's rights studies and analyzes some of the key childhood discourses that are emphasized by these two different approaches. As a way to understand why Hanson calls for emancipation, and in an attempt to begin to emancipate children's rights st…
Compensating for Stigma
We examine 4,300 advertisements of children who were featured in Today’s Child, a daily newspaper column written by Helen Allen in the Toronto Telegram and Toronto Star (1964–1982) and syndicated across North America. We highlight how stigma and values were attributed to adoptive children featured in these advertisements. Our findings reveal how the advertisements perpetuated and attached stigma to these children and how this stigma had to be com…
Post-covid” Childhood-s
Despite the increased risks and vulnerabilities that children and young people face due to the Coronavirus ( covid -19), they are also some of the most active in their participatory responses to this global emergency. Drawing on transdisciplinarity, this paper considers how covid -19 has opened up new spaces and opportunities for the participation of children. For example, young people across the globe have been actively involved in raising digit…
Roles, Responsibilities, and Rights
Limited academic literature has explored the responsibilities of Provincial and Territorial Child and Youth Advocates in Canada. This paper analyses the responsibilities that constitute the role of Canadian Provincial and Territorial Child and Youth Advocates, as well as the forces that impact and shape these responsibilities. A total of 17 participants, including current and former members of the Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates ( c…
Child Rights and Realities
This paper explores how children’s rights are operationalised in practice, specifically by Canadian child and youth advocate offices (all 12 offices across Canada), international children’s commissioners’ offices (in Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Norway and Denmark), and their institutional structures. A total of 24 participants took part in the study, including 12 current child and youth advocates from the Canadian Council o…
Unlocking the Power of Listening
In this paper we situate the act of listening in the context of children’s rights whilst highlighting the benefits of this practice on the psychological and neurological development of children. After unpacking the concept of listening and the role it plays in adult-child communication, we share the results of a scoping review where we examined neuroscientific studies pointing to the benefits of listening and what relevance such evidence has for …
Legal Counsel, Moral Expectations, and Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) is the law that governs the Canadian youth justice system and applies to young people between the ages of twelve and seventeen. The YCJA's Declaration of Principle broadly states that measures taken against young people should consider their "special requirements." Such vague provisions have led young people with mental health issues and intellectual and developmental disabilities to not receive much-needed a…
‘It hurts when they don’t listen to you’
This paper documents the analysis of qualitative data, collected from focus groups and interviews with diverse young people ages 18–24 from across Canada. It analyzes the spectrum of emotions surrounding their perceptions and experiences of what constitutes youth-led climate activism and their understanding of participatory involvement in climate activism. Findings from the qualitative data reveal the complexities associated with the intersection…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Human rights (3 works)