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Unsettling Notions of Participation: A View from South Africa

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Book cover Children and Young People’s Participation and Its Transformative Potential

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On the day of his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela read Ingrid Jonker’s poem The child who was shot dead by soldiers in Nyanga to the crowds who welcomed him in Cape Town. In the poem, the child becomes a symbol of freedom and defies death through living on in others in the quest for freedom, a quest whose message travels without restriction throughout the world. It is a poem that demonstrates how children are part of all aspects of social life, a reality sometimes ignored in circumscribing the ‘proper’ place of children.

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  1. Shirley Pendlebury
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  1. University of Edinburgh, UK

    E. Kay M. Tisdall

  2. University of Strathclyde, UK

    Andressa M. Gadda

  3. The International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood, Brazil

    Udi Mandel Butler

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Pendlebury, S., Henderson, P., Jamieson, L. (2014). Unsettling Notions of Participation: A View from South Africa. In: Tisdall, E.K.M., Gadda, A.M., Butler, U.M. (eds) Children and Young People’s Participation and Its Transformative Potential. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316547_8

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