Conditional Citizens

Rethinking Children and Young People’s Participation

Catherine Hartung (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

147 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-5004-7 (ISBN)

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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’ todayis 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.

Dr Catherine Hartung is a Lecturer at the University of Otago College of Education in Dunedin, New Zealand. She teaches and researches at the cross-section of issues related to children and young people, social justice, citizenship, rights, wellbeing, and diversity. Her work is interdisciplinary, but at its core is a concern with how various educational, cultural, and political institutions govern children and young people, as well as the ways that children and young people negotiate and resist this institutional governance.

Introduction.- The young citizen in new times.- Citizenship, rights and all things nice.- Behind the scenes: key sites governing the young citizen.- A sense of autonomy: rethinking children and young people’s ‘agency'.- Selective hearing: rethinking children and young people’s ‘voice’.- Making a difference: rethinking children and young people’s ‘change’.- Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on Children and Young People ; 5
Zusatzinfo	XXIII, 147 p.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	981-13-5004-3 / 9811350043
ISBN-13	978-981-13-5004-7 / 9789811350047
Zustand	Neuware