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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.

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1. Introduction: Children and Young People´s Participation in Collective Decision-Making; E. Kay M. Tisdall, Rachel Hinton, Andressa M. Gadda and 2. Reflections on Participation and its Link with Transformative Processes; Kelly Teamey and Rachel Hinton 3. De-Colonising the Notion of Participation of Children and Young People; Savyasaachi and Udi M. Butler 4. Children and Young People´s Participation in Public Action in Brazil: Genealogies and Recent Innovations; Udi M. Butler and Marcelo Princeswal 5. Brazil´s Landless Movement and Children and Young People´s Participation; Udi M. Butler and Marcelo Princeswal 6. Children and Young People´s Participation in India: Framing Law, Policy and the Media; S. Saeed 7. Transformative Participation: Experiences of a Children´s Sangam in Tamil Nadu, South India; C. Le Borgne 8. Unsettling Notions of Participation: A View from South Africa; Shirley Pendlebury, Patricia Henderson, and Lucy Jamieson 9. Growing up in the Time of AIDS: The Shining Recorders of Zisize; Helen Meintjes 10. Children should be Seen and Heard? Children and Young People´s Participation in the UK; E. Kay M. Tisdall 11. Transforming the Urban Environment: the EcoCity Project; Colin Morrison, Cathy McCulloch, Drew Mackie, Sandy Halliday and Howard Liddell 12. Conclusion: Unlearning Participation; Udi M. Butler and Kelly Teamey

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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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