The conventional wisdom according to which children s lives
should be safe from adult concerns tends to situate them
categorically outside the political. Thus understood, children
become political agents when they reach maturity and eligibility to
formal participation. Alternatively, political skills and
competences may be seen to develop gradually through political
socialization. Both views are challenged in recent scholarship on
youthful politics beyond the formal, adult-centered political
world.
This book considers politics as it appears and unfolds in
children and young people s everyday lives. The collection
problematizes several key concepts in the research field and
introduces a relational reading of youthful political agency based
on social, spatial and political theorization. The chapters engage
with youthful realities in Sri Lanka, Palestine, Sweden, New
Zealand, the US and the UK, revealing a variety of ways in which
children and youth are important political actors in their own
right. The book also includes an extensive literary review on the
study of children and young people s politics in the past
decade.
This book was originally published as a special issue of "Space
and Polity.""
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