Decolonizing the Notion of Participation of Children and Young People

Savyasaachi,; Butler, Udi Mandel

doi:10.1057/9781137316547_3

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“…One set of scholars have looked into institutionalized and normative modes of children's participation which take as its point of departure formal provisions made by adults that involve children in decision-making processes. This encompasses instances such as student councils in schools, which largely maintain status-quo while incorporating the voices of some children (Savyasaachi & Butler, 2014). In contrast, there is another body of scholarship which takes a more holistic view of participation by unmooring it from the narrow emphasis on institutional mechanisms and grounding it instead in children's everyday life, social-material encounters and relationships (Wyness, 2018).…”

Section: Children's Everyday Participation: a Sociological Lensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rainbows, Teddy Bears and ‘Others’: The Cultural Politics of Children's Leisure Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mukherjee¹

2022

Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus

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In countries currently under lockdown, schools and leisure facilities have closed their gates to the vast majority of children. Having to stay indoors for most of the day, children's leisurescapes have been radically transformed. In these circumstances, instances have emerged from across the globe of children adapting to the lockdown in creative ways and constructing leisurescapes within the limits of the home, by putting up rainbows and teddy bears on windows and porches. Drawing upon media reports about children's rainbow drawings and teddy bear hunts, in this paper, I deploy a sociological lens to demonstrate how children are using these leisure narratives as tools for participating in the wider conversation around the pandemic. At the same time, however, in pinning romanticized notions of hope and 'national spirit' upon the normative image of the child at play, media narratives are obfuscating the inequalities that fracture lived childhoods in the developed world.

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Section: Children's Everyday Participation: a Sociological Lensmentioning

confidence: 99%