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Children and young people build participatory democracy in Latin American cities
Abstract
This paper presents case studies from four cities in Latin America – Cotacachi in Ecuador, Barra Mansa and IcapuÌ in Brazil, and Ciudad Guyana in Venezuela – all of which involved initiatives to foster the active participation of children and young people in the governance of their cities. The paper describes the larger context in each case, the range of methods used to involve young people in each city, the process as it evolved over time, the challenges experienced and the impact of the initiatives. To some extent, all four projects involved the adaptation of participatory budgeting as an approach to participation for young people. The paper concludes with a discussion of the lessons drawn from these cases.
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“Only two studies offered international comparisons: Argentina and Uruguay (Corvera, 2014) and Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela (Cabannes, 2006).”
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“These include India, Norway, Germany, Slovenia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Nigeria, Congo, Burkina Faso, Liberia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, and a Children’s United Parliament of the World (Austin, 2010; Cabannes, 2005; Children’s United Parliament of the World, 2009; Conrad, 2009).”
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“Similarly much of the work on children’s and young people’s participation (in policy, practice or as a research method) has a political context to it (see Cabannes, 2006; Cahill, 2010; Freeman and Aitken-Rose, 2005; Hung, 2011; Kent and Barnett, 2012).”
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- Authors
- Cabannes, Y.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cabannes, Yves
- ORCID
- Cabannes, Yves
- Venue
- Environment and Urbanization
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 195-218
- ISSN
- 0956-2478 (ISSN-L)
- 1746-0301
- OpenAlex
- W2070200825
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 1.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Environment and Urbanization (publishedVersion)
- Children Youth and Environments (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Children's Rights and Participation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth, Politics, and Society
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Politics and Society in Latin America
- Keywords
- youth participation, participatory democracy, participatory budgeting, children and young people, urban governance, participatory urbanism, Latin American cities, Cotopaxi, Barra Mansa
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