Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Children and Young People’s Participation in Collective Decision-making

   • E. Kay M. Tisdall, Rachel Hinton, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler

   Pages 1-21

3. Reflections on Participation and Its Link with Transformative Processes

   • Kelly Teamey, Rachel Hinton

   Pages 22-43

4. Decolonizing the Notion of Participation of Children and Young People

   • Savyasaachi, Udi Mandel Butler

   Pages 44-60

5. Children and Young People’s Participation in Public Action in Brazil: Genealogies and Recent Innovations

   • Udi Mandel Butler, Marcelo Princeswal

   Pages 61-78

6. Brazil’s Landless Movement and Children and Young People’s Participation

   • Marcelo Princeswal, Udi Mandel Butler

   Pages 79-90

7. Children and Young People’s Participation in India: Framing Law, Policy and the Media

   • Saima Saeed

   Pages 91-112

8. Transformative Participation: Experiences of a Children’s Sangam in Tamil Nadu (South India)

   • Carine Le Borgne

   Pages 113-129

9. Unsettling Notions of Participation: A View from South Africa

   • Shirley Pendlebury, Patricia Henderson, Lucy Jamieson

   Pages 130-149

10. Growing Up in a Time of AIDS: The Shining Recorders of Zisize

    • Helen Meintjes

    Pages 150-167

11. Children Should Be Seen and Heard? Children and Young People’s Participation in the UK

    • E. Kay M. Tisdall

    Pages 168-188

12. Transforming the Urban Environment: The EcoCity Project

    • Colin Morrison, Cathy McCulloch, Drew Mackie, Sandy Halliday, Howard Liddell

    Pages 189-207

13. Conclusion: Unlearning Participation

    • Udi Mandel Butler, Kelly Teamey

    Pages 208-226

14. Back Matter

    Pages 227-236

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Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.

• child
• youth
• young people
• participation
• EcoCity
• decision-making
• public action
• children
• environment
• innovation
• law
• Policy
• childhood studies

• University of Edinburgh, UK

  E. Kay M. Tisdall

• University of Strathclyde, UK

  Andressa M. Gadda

• The International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood, Brazil

  Udi Mandel Butler

Sandy Halliday, Gaia Research, UK Patricia Henderson, Rhodes University, South Africa Rachel Hinton, Department for International Development, UK Carine Le Borgne, University of Edinburgh, UK Howard Liddell, Gaia Architects, UK Lucy Jamieson, University of Cape Town, South Africa Cathy McCulloch, Children's Parliament, UK Drew Mackie, Gaia Projects, UK Helen Meintjes, University of Cape Town, South Africa Colin Morrison, Children's Parliament, UK Shirley Pendlebury, University of Cape Town, South Africa Marcelo Princeswal, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Saima Saeed, Jamia Millia Islamia University, India Savyasaachi, Jamia Millia Islamia University, India Kelly Teamey, Freelance Researcher, UK   

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