Acknowledgements -- Notes on the contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: children and young people's participation in collective decision-making -- Reflections on participation and its link with transformative processes -- De-colonising the notion of participation of children and young people -- Children and young people's participation in public action in Brazil : genealogies and recent innovations -- Brazil's landless movement and children and young people's participation -- Children and young people's participation in India : framing law, policy and the media -- Transformative participation : experiences of a children's sangam in Tamil Nadu (South India) -- Unsettling notions of participation : a view from South Africa -- Growing up in a time of AIDS : the shining recorders of Zisize -- Children should be seen and heard? : children and young people's participation in the UK -- Transforming the urban environment : the ecocity project -- Conclusion: unlearning participation -- Bibliography.