Reading Time: 3 minutesA few months ago, I released my recent book Children’s Participation in the Context of Inequalities: Confronting Children’s Agency, Social Positioning and Power Disparities. In this work, I examine how inequalities and social identities influence the operationalisation of children’s and young people’s participation rights. Children’s social positioning remains subordinated to multiple systems of domination, including patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and intergenerational power relations.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are thrilled to announce the launch of a new Children & Society special issue, ‘Conceptualising and Researching Child and Youth Activism’. The collection seeks ‘to provide a platform for the range of child and youth activism emerging globally and the participatory methods that contribute to these movements’.

Reading Time: 4 minutesI shared a snapshot of my PhD research project and some emergent findings around the skills, knowledge and values young people conceptualised as key in an informal civic education organisation case study.