This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that
underpin popular approaches to children and young people's
participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that
have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new
times. The book draws on the vast international literature, as well
as interviews with key practitioners, policy-makers, activists,
delegates and academics from Japan, South Africa, Brazil,
Nicaragua, Australia, the United Kingdom, Finland, the United
States and Italy to examine the emergence of the young citizen as a
key global priority in the work of the UN, NGOs, government and
academia. In so doing, the book engages contemporary and
interdisciplinary debates around citizenship, rights, childhood and
youth to examine the complex conditions through which children and
young people are governed and invited to govern themselves. The
book argues that much of what is considered 'children and young
people's participation' today is part of a wider neoliberal project
that emphasises an ideal young citizen who is responsible and
rational while simultaneously downplaying the role of systemic
inequality and potentially reinforcing rather than overcoming
children and young people's subjugation. Yet the book also moves
beyond mere critique and offers suggestive ways to broaden our
understanding of children and young people's participation by
drawing on 15 international examples of empirical research from
around the world, including the Philippines, Bangladesh, the United
Kingdom, North America, Finland, South Africa, Australia and Latin
America. These examples provoke practitioners, policy-makers and
academics to think differently about children and young people and
the possibilities for their participatory citizenship beyond that
which serves the political agendas of dominant interest groups.
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