Children's Participation in the Context of Inequalities
Confronting Children's Agency, Social Positioning, and Power Disparity
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"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.
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
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“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)
“Calling to reshape the boundaries of participation in public decision-making, the book adds valuable empirical and theoretical insights to ongoing academic and social conversations on children and young people’s social identities, lived experiences of inequalities, political participation, child-led activism and child-led research.” (Karl Hanson, Director, Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva)
“Children and young people’s right to social participation has been a source of political and academic interest particularly after the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. Much research has been done with a predominant focus on the barriers to their participation in decision-making processes. Cuevas-Parra contests this perspective. He demonstrates the importance and the potential of young people´s activism through his own research in a variety of countries, with a particular emphasis on participation of young people who live in contexts of inequality. Using multiple international theoretical and methodological approaches, this book is a major contribution to the existing knowledge on the topic as it adds the voices and experiences of young people as crucial to understand the diversity of childhoods.” (Irene Rizzini, Professor, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and President of the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood)
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