TY - CHAP AB - Although the popular image of social movement protest is tied to youth, this image is not generally extended to younger children. Children throughout history have participated in social movements, and yet the social construction of children as wholly innocent acts as a barrier to their perceived involvement. Childhood itself is viewed as a protected and universalized space, thereby denying its multiple social locations. Indeed, if children were viewed as inhabiting a socio-political location this might actually be seen to warrant their movement participation. As it stands, however, the reality of children clashes with the preferred image and therefore children appear to be the most understudied of all social movement participants. VL - 11 SN - 978-0-76231-256-6, 978-1-84950-376-1/1537-4661 DO - 10.1016/S1537-4661(05)11009-5 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1537-4661(05)11009-5 AU - Rodgers Diane M. ED - David A. Kinney ED - Katherine Brown Rosier PY - 2005 Y1 - 2005/01/01 TI - Children as Social Movement Participants T2 - Sociological Studies of Children and Youth T3 - Sociological Studies of Children and Youth PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 239 EP - 259 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -