Children, Childhood & Youth Studies

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS A New Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: Conversations for Transformational Change First published in 2010 as A Ha...ndbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: Perspectives from Theory and Practice. In the decade since A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: Perspectives from Theory and Practice was published, much has changed both in the theory and practice of children and young people’s participation, and most notably in the wider global context. Economic recession, reactionary regimes, the immediate stresses posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread lockdown, stark manifestations of social and racial inequalities, and the ever-present and increasingly urgent threat of climate and habitat collapse all make for an extraordinarily challenging environment for children and young people’s participation as equal and active citizens in their families, schools and communities, and in wider society. Amidst these challenges the last 10 years have witnessed the various, and often innovative, ways that children and young people have contributed to responses to these problems locally or globally, alongside adults or independently, playing a key role in initiating processes of transformation within their contexts. In turn, these contexts and responses from children and young people raise new questions and challenges about the state of children and young people’s participation in diverse communities around the world that require examination, critical reflection and discussion from both a theoretical and practitioner perspective. The original editors of the Handbook, Barry Percy-Smith and Nigel Patrick Thomas, were recently approached by Routledge to consider producing a new edition. Barry and Patrick were keen to do this, but felt the project would benefit from fresh eyes (and hands) and so invited Claire O’Kane and Afua Twum-Danso Imoh to join them as editors. The four of us first conducted an online consultative survey with contributors from the original Handbook, which gave us a wealth of useful ideas that we drew on in writing an outline proposal. This has now been accepted by Routledge following external review. The new Handbook will not be an update, but a wholly new edition. Like the original Handbook, it will be based on an open call for contributions in order to reflect a multiplicity of voices, experiences, theories and practices. Together we are committed to producing a volume that reflects the current reality of children and young people’s participation. We are looking for work that explores the changes there have been in theory and practice, and in particular that confronts the challenges (and sometimes failures) in fulfilling the aspirations of participation as transformational practice. We are interested in contributions that deepen and develop theory, as well as in critical or reflective reports on innovative practice. We welcome contributions from across a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as from practitioners working in diverse practice and social contexts and regions of the world; as before, we particularly welcome contributions from the ‘global South’. We want to encourage conversation and debate within the volume, and so are inviting offers based on dialogue or conversation between contributors and with partners in practice, as well as more traditional academic papers. We are particularly keen to have contributions from children and young people, either independently or working with adults and we are open to suggestions of work in formats and media other than written text. Possible themes for contributions might include: changing norms and beliefs about children and young people’s agency in everyday life; relational and intergenerational framings; children and young people as ‘active citizens’ in informal as well as formal spaces; children and young people’s participation as community development; children and young people, social movements and new democratic forms; children and young people’s protagonism and activism; participation in a digital world; participation on the move; children and young people’s participation in precarious situations including emergency situations; children and young people’s participation in climate action; children and young people’s initiatives in fighting social injustice; participation in different socio-cultural/political contexts; participation as a learning process (for adults and children); significance of space and time for participation; impact and theories of transformative action; dialogue with (active) citizenship literature and contributions from citizen science and engaged research discourses; relation between identity, agency and empowerment; conflict and disruption; gender, ethnic and cultural dimensions to participation; embedding children and young people’s participation in public service systems; the role of the arts and creativity; ethics and participation. In terms of focus, the volume seeks to foreground aspects of participation as experienced by diverse groups of children and young people. However, it will especially seek to illuminate experiences and perspectives of participation relating to groups of children and young people whose participation is especially challenging, such as refugees and unaccompanied minors, disabled children, children/ young people within institutions and children/ young people of indigenous groups in a wide range of contexts. To be considered for this volume please use the template below to submit your expression of interest. We anticipate making initial decisions by the end of February, with a view to inviting first drafts of all contributions by October 2021, and submission of final copy to the publisher in April 2022. 1. Name of author(s) 2. Institution/ Agency (affiliation) 3. Country & region (of a. authors, and b. the participation work the paper is focused on 4. Abstract (< 400 words) 5. Which theme(s) your paper contributes to (< 50 words) 6. Whether, and if so how, children and young people are involved as contributors to the paper (< 150 words) 7. A brief overview of the ethical principles underpinning your proposed paper or alternative media product (< 150 words) 8. A brief biography for each contributor (< 150 words) 9. Focal point name and email for communication Please submit to [email protected] by 30th January 2021.