1.Introduction: Lived Citizenship, rights and participationin contemporary Europe; Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn.- 2. Childrens citizenship in globalised societies; Hanne Warming.- 3. Childrens participation: definitions, narratives and disputes; Michael Wyness.- 4. Recognition and capability: a new way to understand how children can achieve their rights?; Nigel ThomasandDaniel Stoecklin.- 5. Theorising Childrens Bodies. A critical review of relational understandings in Childhood Studies; Florian Eer.- 6.Unexpected allies. Expanding the theoretical toolbox of the childrens rights sociologist; Michele Poretti.- 7. Beyond the modern norm of childhood: children at the margins as a challenge for the Sociology of Childhood; Manuel Jacinto Sarmento,Rita de Cassia Marchi and Gabriela de Pina Trevisan.- 8. Participation as learning for change in everyday spaces: Enhancing meaning and effectiveness using action research; Barry Percy-Smith.-9.The child, the pupil, the citizen. Outlines and perspectives of a critical theory of citizenship education; Federico Farini.- 10. Heteropolitical pedagogies. citizenship and childhood. Commoning education in contemporary Greece; Yannis Pechtelidis.- 11. The right to be transnational. Narratives and positionings of children with a migration background in Italy; Sara Amadasi and Vittorio Iervese.- 12. Conclusions:Lived Childhoods; Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn.