Temporalities in Crisis
Analysing the Sacchi v. Argentina Case and Children's Rights in the Climate Emergency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7149544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Florencia Paz Landeira (0000-0001-9877-3930, School of Law University College Cork Cork Ireland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 854-863 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-0605 • E-ISSN: 1099-0860 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/chso.12955 |
| OpenAlex | W4408537247 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
This article examines the Sacchi v. Argentina case, a landmark legal action led by children against five states for their role in climate change, analysed through the lens of temporality. The case, brought before the Committee on the Rights of the Child, was pivotal in linking the climate crisis to children's rights, despite being ruled inadmissible. This paper explores the multiple temporalities inherent in the climate crisis, such as urgency, gradualness and intergenerational effects, and how they intersect with legal frameworks and children's unique experience of time. By focusing on the narratives and claims of the child petitioners, this study investigates the disproportionate impacts of climate change on younger generations and the ways in which the law constructs time, offering a new perspective on the relationship between human rights and environmental justice. The analysis contributes to the broader discourse on how to address children's rights within the growing field of climate litigation
Climate change · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Temporalities · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Environmental law and policy · Law
Direitos e ajuda humanitária
Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations
Imagining future worlds alongside young climate activists
The “Anthropocene”
Framing Time in Climate Change Litigation
Temporalizing Childhood
Developments
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Staying with the Trouble
The Temporal Ontology of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review
Vulnerability, Intertemporality, and Climate Litigation
Temporality in restorative justice
Legal Struggles
Slow justice and other unexpected consequences of litigation in environmental conflicts
Intergenerational rights are children's rights
To Be (Come) or Not to Be (Come)
Reinventing children's rights
On racialized linear time and temporal 'othering
Children as future-makers
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |