Deeping the roots of children’s participation

Larkins Cath
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In the field of childhood studies and child rights activism there is a strong commitment to supporting children's participation in public decision making. There are growing examples of this in practice across Europe. But it is rarely inclusive of marginalised children and can tend to focus on voice rather than action.  This article, developed from a recent conference presentation, reflects on15 years of the author's practice and academic work. It suggests that fertile ground for deeper and strongly rooted examples of impactful and inclusive children's participation by picking apart existing participatory processes using a lense of citizenship, challenges, agency and time. This might enable us to dare to consistently name the risk that child participation can become an exercise in neoliberal citizenship, to steer practice towards more radical notions of participation as direct influence over resources (rather than voice) and to help ground calls for action in an understanding of the longterm patterns of inequality that many children are confronting.     
深化儿童参与的根基
在儿童研究和儿童权利活动领域,大力致力于支持儿童参与公共决策。在整个欧洲,这样的例子越来越多。但它很少包括被边缘化的儿童,而且往往更关注声音而不是行动。这篇文章是根据最近的一次会议报告改编的,反映了作者15年来的实践和学术工作。通过从公民身份、挑战、机构和时间的角度对现有的参与过程进行分析,它为更深入、更根深蒂固的有影响力和包容性的儿童参与提供了肥沃的土壤。这可能使我们敢于始终如一地指出儿童参与可能成为新自由主义公民身份的一种实践的风险,引导实践走向更激进的参与概念,将其作为对资源的直接影响(而不是声音),并帮助呼吁采取行动,了解许多儿童所面临的长期不平等模式。
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