Philosophy and Child Poverty Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Poor Children and their Families

Nicolás Brando is a Research Fellow for the “Global Governance and Democratic Government” Programme at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (KU Leuven), and a PhD scholar at the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven). He works on moral and political philosophy, particularly on issues of global justice, education and childhood. His work has been published in the Journal of World Trade, Global Policy and International Journal of Educational Development , among others.

Gottfried Schweiger is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy. Previous publications include (co-authored with Gunter Graf) “A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty” (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and (co-edited with Johannes Drerup, Gunter Graf and Christoph Schickhardt) “Justice, Education and the Politics of Childhood” (Springer 2016).