1. Introduction: Lived Citizenship, rights and participation in contemporary Europe; Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn -- 2. Children’s citizenship in globalised societies; Hanne Warming -- 3. Children’s participation: definitions, narratives and disputes; Michael Wyness -- 4. Recognition and capability: a new way to understand how children can achieve their rights?; Nigel Thomas and Daniel Stoecklin -- 5. Theorising Children’s Bodies. A critical review of relational understandings in Childhood Studies; Florian Eßer -- 6. Unexpected allies. Expanding the theoretical toolbox of the children’s 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 Cássia 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.