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.
Chapter
1. Introduction.
Chapter
2. Children and Young People as
Rights-Holders and Competent Social Actors.
Chapter 3. Global trends for
children and young peoples participation.
Chapter 4. Children and young
peoples 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 peoples participation through child-led
research.
Chapter 9. Conclusion.
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.