1. Introduction: Children and Young People's Participation in Collective Decision-Making; E. Kay M. Tisdall, Rachel Hinton, Andressa M. Gadda and 2. Reflections on Participation and its Link with Transformative Processes; Kelly Teamey and Rachel Hinton 3. De-Colonising the Notion of Participation of Children and Young People; Savyasaachi and Udi M. Butler 4. Children and Young People's Participation in Public Action in Brazil: Genealogies and Recent Innovations; Udi M. Butler and Marcelo Princeswal 5. Brazil's Landless Movement and Children and Young People's Participation; Udi M. Butler and Marcelo Princeswal 6. Children and Young People's Participation in India: Framing Law, Policy and the Media; S. Saeed 7. Transformative Participation: Experiences of a Children's Sangam in Tamil Nadu, South India; C. Le Borgne 8. Unsettling Notions of Participation: A View from South Africa; Shirley Pendlebury, Patricia Henderson, and Lucy Jamieson 9. Growing up in the Time of AIDS: The Shining Recorders of Zisize; Helen Meintjes 10. Children should be Seen and Heard? Children and Young People's Participation in the UK; E. Kay M. Tisdall 11. Transforming the Urban Environment: the EcoCity Project; Colin Morrison, Cathy McCulloch, Drew Mackie, Sandy Halliday and Howard Liddell 12. Conclusion: Unlearning Participation; Udi M. Butler and Kelly Teamey