Children's Participation in the Context of Inequalities

This book takes up theoretical and practical discussions of children and young people's participation in public decision-making by taking into account existing literature from throughout childhood studies, sociology of childhood, children's human rights studies, decolonization studies, and intersectionality studies. Through case studies conducted in Brazil, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, and Ghana, Cuevas-Parra provides extensive empirical data from beyond the Global North and confronts dominant views of power, inequalities, and agency. The understanding that children and young people are immersed in intersectional social structures, where they are never 'simply children' but individuals with multiple specific identities, cuts across the book.

Includes case studies from Brazil, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, and Ghana Challenges dominant views of childhood and current childhood literature Considers an intersectional approach to unpack age-based limitations, social positioning, and cultures of oppression

Autorentext

Patricio Cuevas-Parra is Honorary Fellow of the Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Director for Child Participation and Rights at World Vision International. He is also a member of the Childhood and Youth Studies.

Klappentext

"The book elegantly combines conceptual ideas with case studies on children and young people's participation, drawn from Cuevas-Parra's own practice as both a researcher and a children's rights advocate working globally. The result is a book with fresh and challenging ideas, particularly in how to attend to power differences and inequalities, and the considerable potential of child activism and child-led research."
Kay Tisdall, Professor of Childhood Policy, University of Edinburgh

This book takes up theoretical and practical discussions of children and young people's participation in public decision-making by taking into account existing literature from throughout childhood studies, sociology of childhood, children's human rights studies, decolonization studies, and intersectionality studies. Through case studies conducted in Brazil, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, and Ghana, Cuevas-Parra provides extensive empirical data from beyond the Global North and confronts dominant views of power, inequalities, and agency. The understanding that children and young people are immersed in intersectional social structures, where they are never 'simply children' but individuals with multiple specific identities, cuts across the book.

Patricio Cuevas-Parra is Honorary Fellow of the Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Director for Child Participation and Rights at World Vision International. He is also a member of the Childhood and Youth Studies.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Children and Young People as Rights-Holders and Competent Social Actors.- Chapter 3. Global trends for children and young people's participation.- Chapter 4. Children and young people's intersectional social identities and lived experiences of inequalities.- Chapter 5. Activism of marginalised children and young people during the COVID-19 pandemic.- Chapter 6. Identity-based child-led activism in Uganda and Brazil.- Chapter 7. Child-led intersectional praxis in challenging traditional patriarchal norms in Sierra Leone.- Chapter 8. Decolonising children and young people's participation through child-led research.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.