Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The contributors explore a range of themes including: tensions between pragmatism and grand theory; revisiting agency/structure debates in the light of children; the challenging of binary thought prevalent in studies around 'generations' and other aspects of sociology; the manifestation of power in time and space; the application of theories into the 'real' world through NGOs, practitioners, policy makers, politicians and empirical research.
The collection will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including childhood studies, sociology, politics and social policy, as well as policy makers and practitioners interested in the citizenship, rights and participation of children.
1. Introduction: Lived Citizenship, rights and participation in contemporary Europe; Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn.- 2. Children's citizenship in globalised societies; Hanne Warming.- 3. Children's participation: definitions, narratives and disputes; Michael Wyness.- 4. Recognition and capability: a new way to understand how children can achieve their rights?; Nigel Thomas and Daniel Stoecklin.- 5. Theorising Children's Bodies. A critical review of relational understandings in Childhood Studies; Florian Eßer.- 6. Unexpected allies. Expanding the theoretical toolbox of the children's rights sociologist; Michele Poretti.- 7. Beyond the modern "norm" of childhood: children at the margins as a challenge for the Sociology of Childhood; Manuel Jacinto Sarmento, Rita de Cássia Marchi and Gabriela de Pina Trevisan.- 8. Participation as learning for change in everyday spaces: Enhancing meaning and effectiveness using action research; Barry Percy-Smith.-9. The child, the pupil, the citizen. Outlines and perspectives of a critical theory of citizenship education; Federico Farini.- 10. Heteropolitical pedagogies. citizenship and childhood. Commoning education in contemporary Greece; Yannis Pechtelidis.- 11. The right to be transnational. Narratives and positionings of children with a migration background in Italy; Sara Amadasi and Vittorio Iervese.- 12. Conclusions: Lived Childhoods; Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn.
