Theorising Childhood

1. Introduction: Lived Citizenship, Rights and Participation in Contemporary Europe
Claudio Baraldi, Tom Cockburn

2. Children’s Citizenship in Globalised Societies
Hanne Warming

3. Children’s Participation: Definitions, Narratives and Disputes
Michael Wyness

4. Recognition and Capability: A New Way to Understand How Children Can Achieve Their Rights?
Nigel Thomas, Daniel Stoecklin

5. Theorising Children’s Bodies. A Critical Review of Relational Understandings in Childhood Studies
Florian Eßer

6. Unexpected Allies: Expanding the Theoretical Toolbox of the Children’s Rights Sociologist
Michele Poretti

7. Beyond the Modern ‘Norm’ of Childhood: Children at the Margins as a Challenge for the Sociology of Childhood
Manuel Jacinto Sarmento, Rita de Cássia Marchi, Gabriela de Pina Trevisan

8. Participation as Learning for Change in Everyday Spaces: Enhancing Meaning and Effectiveness Using Action Research
Barry Percy-Smith

9. The Child, the Pupil, the Citizen: Outlines and Perspectives of a Critical Theory of Citizenship Education
Federico Farini

10. Heteropolitical Pedagogies: Citizenship and Childhood—Commoning Education in Contemporary Greece
Yannis Pechtelidis

11. The Right to Be Transnational: Narratives and Positionings of Children with a Migration Background in Italy
Sara Amadasi, Vittorio Iervese

12. Conclusion: Lived Childhoods
Claudio Baraldi, Tom Cockburn

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Children, Youth and Family Policy