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Adult trust and children’s democratic participation

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posted on 2023-06-09, 11:48 authored by Jo Moran-EllisJo Moran-Ellis, Heinz Suenker
This chapter considers the role of played by adult trust in relation to children’s democratic participation. Following an analysis of how discourses of trust in relation to children construct the participating child in different spaces of participation we find a high degree of contingency attends on how trust and distrust are mobilised by adult in relation to children when it comes to including children in decision-making processes. From a participatory perspective we find that where participatory mechanisms are realised through formalised system processes of confidence this can serve in children’s favour but that where adults retain the warrant to override children’s views this is often articulated through questions of interpersonal trust and distrust. Finally, we argue that adults deploy or withhold interpersonal trust in relation to children as a class of person in ways which are akin to early Parsonian formulations of trust within familiar situations which suggests children as a category are held in a web of what could be characterised as ‘pre-modern’ relations to adults as a class.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Page range

32-51

Pages

215.0

Book title

Participation, citizenship and trust in children’s lives

Place of publication

Basingstoke

ISBN

9781349337668

Series

Studies in childhood and youth

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth Publications

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  • No

Editors

Hannah Warming

Legacy Posted Date

2018-01-29

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-01-29

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