ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes with suggestions for moving forward in seeing children as participants in social movements. Understanding the participation of children in social movements requires, first and foremost, acknowledging the wide range of their presence in these movements. Children have been significantly present in a range of historic and contemporary social movements around the world. Moving from a merely descriptive and random mention of children in social movements to a more theoretical framework is the contribution this book makes to the social movement research and further employing the insights of childhood studies. The many case studies and their analysis using social movement theories and concepts is meant to encourage future research into the types of participation. The typology presents the distinct patterns of the types of participation and how they connect to children’s unique sociopolitical location. This presents larger issues of agency, mobilization, and rights in social movement research. Including children in social movement research will expand our knowledge of these participants and social movement organizations and processes in general.
