E Kay M Tisdall

E Kay M Tisdall
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Co-production, a form of collaborative working, is guided by principles including valuing all participants, building on individual strengths, blurring distinctions between roles, delivering benefits for all participants, building support networks and supporting people to deliver work themselves. This article explores how co-production is understood...
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Child-led research is gaining increasing attention. Such research involves children leading throughout the research process, from research design to dissemination. Child-led research has tested adult-centric research assumptions, with debates in the literature about researchers’ expertise and responsibilities. If these debates are testing for child...
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Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education. As early childhood education (ECE) has expanded worldwide, so have concerns a...
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Authors: Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Loritta Chan, Mary Ann Powell, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Irene Rizzini, Roshni K. Nuggehalli, Alicia Tauro, Bharath Palavalli This is an open access article https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12802 This paper explores how research advisory groups can be a vehicle for youth activism. It draws on our experiences with young activi...
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Tisdall, E.K.M., Davis, J.M., Fry, D., Konstantoni, K., Kustatscher, M., Maternowska, M.C. and Weiner, L. (2023) Critical Childhood Studies: Global Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury. The book provides an advanced, accessible text for childhood studies, which is suitable and challenging for those coming from practice, different parts of the world a...
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Although youth participation is oft-acknowledged as underpinning mental health policy and service reform, little robust evidence exists about the participation of children and youth in mental health policymaking. A scoping review based on Arksey and O’Malley’s framework was conducted to identify and synthesize available information on children and...
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Purpose To elicit stakeholder perspectives on the findings from our scoping review on youth participation in mental health policymaking, we conducted a global consultation with young people and adults directly involved in mental health policymaking. Method Forty-four stakeholders from 16 countries, including 15 young people, 9 policymakers and 20...
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In projects with children and young people globally, participatory methodologiesparticipatory methodologies have received much critical attention. They have been celebrated for their potential to centre the agendas and resources of children and young people themselves and to produce knowledge collaboratively. They are often seen to remedy some of t...
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This is an editorial and does not have an abstract. This is available open access at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100900
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This article draws on child activists’ experiences in Bangladesh and Ghana, who mobilised to stop potential child marriages from their respective Child Forums and Children’s Parliaments. Case studies were undertaken with 75 child activists, 10 girls whose child marriages had been stopped, and 22 adult stakeholders. The children’s activism disrupted...
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El potencial de transformación comunitaria que tiene la participación juvenil se reconoce cada vez más en el ámbito político-práctico-académico. El artículo analiza el aprendizaje metodológico de nuestro proyecto digital participativo basado en la música y las artes con jóvenes afrocolombianos e indígenas en Quibdó-Colombia, una zona afectada por e...
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Since the Scottish Parliament unanimously passed the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill in a landmark vote in March 2021, many people and organisations in Scotland have been considering how best to implement the Bill and ensure children’s human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled. To support this transformative change, the Observatory...
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The publication is open access at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2022.2061955 Policy responses to COVID-19 have illuminated how children and young people’s human rights were all too often side-lined by adult concerns. With mounting queries during the first ‘lockdown’ in Scotland (March 2020), the Children and Young People’s...
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The recent Covid‐19 global health pandemic has negatively affected the political and economic development of communities around the world. This article shares the lessons from our multi‐country project Safe, Inclusive Participative Pedagogy: Improving Early Childhood Education in Fragile Contexts (UKRI GCRF) on how children in communities in Brazil...
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This is an open-access publication at https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12556 It is an editorial for a special journal issue.
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Access at https://hrbopenresearch.org/articles/4-104 Background: We are currently in a period of transition, from the pre-COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) era and the initial reactive lockdowns, to now the ongoing living with and potentially the after COVID-19 period. Each country is at its own individual stage of this transition, but many have...
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This article is open access at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2022.2036135 Policy responses to COVID-19 have had dramatic impacts on children’s human rights, as much as the COVID-19 pandemic itself. In the rush to protect the human right of survival and development, new policies and their implementation magnified the challen...
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The article focuses on emotions in participatory research with children and young people. We approach emotions as a generative site for exposing assumptions about participation, as well as participation rights more widely. Our reflections emerged out of revisiting two participatory research projects involving young people (aged 14 to 25) and identi...
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Background: We are currently in a period of transition, from the pre-COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) era and the initial reactive lockdowns, to now the ongoing living with and potentially the after COVID-19 period. Each country is at its own individual stage of this transition, but many have gone through a period of feeling adrift; disconnected...
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To note this is open access - you can access at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2021.1968377 Over the last 30 years, remarkable efforts have been made to understand and support children and young people's participation rights outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Despite these efforts, challenges r...
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Children's participation rights, enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), have been a popular area of research, policy and practice for decades. Despite a great deal of interest and activity, participation rights have posed a particular challenge to implement. In response, researchers have consistently called for more in-de...
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The collection aims to inspire readers with new approaches to implementing and monitoring the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to make rights ‘real’ in children’s lives.
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Young people’s participation is an urgent policy and practice concern, across countries and context. This book showcases original research evidence and analysis to consider how, under what conditions and for what purposes young people participate in different parts of Europe. Focusing on the interplay between the concepts of youth, inequality and p...
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Young people’s participation is an urgent policy and practice concern, across countries and context. This book showcases original research evidence and analysis to consider how, under what conditions and for what purposes young people participate in different parts of Europe. Focusing on the interplay between the concepts of youth, inequality and p...
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Children and young people's participation activities continue to grow, galvanised by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). As the activities have proliferated, so has a list of common barriers and problems for children and young people's participation in collective decision making, from tokenism and lack of impact on dec...
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Introduction Considerable policy and practice interest is currently promoting young people's participation, locally, nationally and internationally. It has become a popularised requirement for numerous domains, from community regeneration, to service planning, to policy making (Tisdall et al, 2014; Gal and Duramy, 2015). As discussed in this book's...
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Over 30 years after the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was ratified by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1989, young people's active citizenship and participation rights have gained increased attention in both academia, policy and practice (Westwood et al, 2014; Gal and Duramy, 2015; McMellon and Tisdall, 202...
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Children and young people’s participation activities continue to grow, galvanised by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. As the activities have proliferated, so has a list of common barriers and problems for children and young people’s participation in collective decision-making: from tokenism and lack of impact on decision-making, to som...
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The book set out to revisit, how, under what conditions and for what purpose young people – in different contexts – participate in making decisions and foster changes on issues that concern them and their communities. Based on research predominantly from Scandinavia and the UK, but also from the particular experiences of youth movements in Italy, d...
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The introduction introduces key concepts and controversies within existing literature, aiming at problematising and broadening the current understanding of young people’s participation in itself. It introduces the three themes of the book, discussing the existing evidence and conceptualisations, and putting forward key questions that is addressed i...
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Young people’s participation is an urgent policy and practice concern, across countries and context. This book showcases original research evidence and analysis to consider how, under what conditions and for what purposes young people participate in different parts of Europe. Focusing on the interplay between the concepts of youth, inequality and p...
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A children’s parliament can be defined as a formal structure for children and young people’s participation that meets on a regular or semi-regular basis. This is a working definition, as there is no single definition of children’s parliaments universally agreed upon. Very similar structures can be called different things, such as child councils, ch...
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Aims and objectives This paper explores children’s experiences and perceptions of their own bilingualism in two contexts in Scotland, UK: a primary school with a high proportion of children using a language other than English at home; and a primary school where the language of instruction is an indigenous, minority language, Gaelic. Methodology Th...
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Despite the widespread ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, children continue to struggle to have their participation rights recognised and supported. This is evident within family law, where despite sometimes progressive and strong legislation, children’s views are often not heard, nor given due weight, when pa...
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has now been in place for over thirty years and is widely ratified. However, as the UNCRC is operationalised, a number of practical, conceptual and ethical issues have emerged . For example, questions arise concerning children’s capacity and competence to make autonomous decisions, their involvem...
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Given the importance of data skills to the economy and the skills shortage within data science, educational policy makers have identified the importance of including technical and analytical data skills in the school curriculum. An equally important aim is to educate children and young people to become data citizens who are aware of the current use...
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This toolkit has been produced as part of the Improving Justice in Child Contact project. It is aimed at women’s and/or children’s rights organisations across Europe wishing to undertake participation initiatives with children and young people relating to child contact and domestic violence.
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights convention in the world. There has been considerable progress in incorporating these rights into domestic law, regional and local policies. However, cross-national research continues to show gaps in implementing and realising these rights. This article draws on theoretic...
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An independent CRIA done for the Commissioner for Children and Young People Scotland. Authors E. Kay M. Tisdall, Mary Ann Powell, Katie Reid and Grace Kong. Advised and supported by Jennifer C. Davidson, Maria Doyle, Juliet Harris and Naomi Suttoon. Subject Leads for Appendices Further information https://cypcs.org.uk/subject/cria/
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has catalysed numerous jurisdictions to introduce new legal provisions to support children's participation rights when child contact is contested. Despite this, children's participation is frequently limited in practice, especially in contexts where children are perceived as vulnerable to a p...
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Children and young people’s participation is an ever-growing demand. Thirty years on from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’s adoption, however, fundamental challenges continue for participation that are widely recognised cross-nationally but remain stubbornly consistent. As a way in to considering the children and young people’s partici...
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There is ever-increasing global and local attention to children’s participation rights. As activities have proliferated, so have concerns about children’s participation having an impact on decision-making. This article looks to what can be learned conceptually and practically from children’s activism, where children have actively changed decisions...
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Nearly thirty years ago, the world recognised the participation rights of children with the adoption by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Since then childhood researchers in the Global South and Global North have been at the forefront of promoting these rights. The increased involvement of children and youth in research has...
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This research project was conducted by the University of Edinburgh and World Vision. The main recommendations from this study is for child-focused agencies, decision makers, adult professionals and child activists to systematically invest in programmes that recognise children as rights holders and social actors with the capability to engage in acti...
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Recent debates about children’s participation rights, formulated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, primarily focus on ‘effectiveness’ of implementation. However, children’s participation remains problematic, its limited impact on adult power in decision-making or on the nature of decisions made persists, and implicated in both are re...
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Article 12 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child recognises the right of children and young people to express their views on issues relevant to their lives. Countries who have ratified the Convention have a legal obligation to take appropriate measures to implement this right. However, implementing children and young people’s...
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is the most ratified international human rights treaty. Yet problems continue about ensuring that children’s rights are recognised and supported in their daily lives. To this end, informal and formal efforts have been made for greater incorporation of the UNCRC into national law and policies. Thi...
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Over the last twenty years, childhood studies has challenged the schooled and developmental models of childhood. The children’s rights agenda has combined with academic childhood studies, to emphasise that children are and can be social actors and to seek ways to recognise and support their participation rights. For those who promote the participat...
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights convention in the world. There has been considerable progress in incorporating these rights into domestic law, regional and local policies. However, cross-national research continues to show gaps in implementing and realising these rights. This article draws on theoretic...
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Authors: Mitchell, M, Tisdall, EKM & Riddell, C Children’s services are increasingly asked to take an outcomes-based approach, to ensure that they are improving outcomes for children and young people (hereafter children) and their families. This briefing reports on research that investigated outcomes following Family Group Conferencing (FGC), whi...
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Part of Childhood's journal anniversary conversations. Moderator: Leena Alanen, Participants: Claudio Baraldi, Ning de Coninck-Smith, Caitríona Ní Laoire, Kay Tisdall
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This is an *early* version of the paper recently published in journal. The final version has been peer viewed. Galvanised by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many jurisdictions have introduced or strengthened children’s rights to participate in family law proceedings. Yet, the research and legal literature continues to show difficult...
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How can ideas and concepts from human rights inform and challenge ways of undertaking research with children? Over the last twenty years, there has been a significant 'turn' in the social sciences and related disciplines, to undertaking research with rather than research on children. This turn has several strands: developing 'participative' or 'cre...
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While Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child has encouraged children’s participation in collective decision-making, the literature is replete with the challenges as well as successes of such participation. One challenge is adults’ perceptions of children’s competence and competencies. These are frequently used as threshold criteria...
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This introduction provides the rationale for the special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights on the topic of the children’s right to participation and protection in international development and humanitarian efforts. It summarises selected contributions relating to an international conference entitled ‘Facilitating Child Participatio...
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Children and young people’s participation in collective decision-making has become a popular policy and practice concern. Yet challenges persist, such as tokenism, limited impact and unsustainability. This article examines ways to address these challenges and realise children and young people’s participation, particularly in child protection contex...
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Galvanised by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many jurisdictions now recognise children’s rights to participate in decisions that affect them. While such legal rights have increased, research on family law proceedings shows how children’s views can still be undermined, ignored or not even sought in decisions about them. This article u...
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Background Child maltreatment is a major global public health and safety issue, with short and long term adverse consequences for individuals, communities and society generally. Children and families affected by migration are more vulnerable to maltreatment due to numerous reasons including reduced resources, increased psychosocial pressures, traum...
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Children’s wellbeing has moved from an academic field of interest to a policy and practice framework, internationally and in many countries. Children’s wellbeing tends to be twinned casually with children’s rights but recent Scottish legislation – the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 – has put children’s rights and children’s wellbeing...
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Our report Speaking up reveals how too many children and parents are being left voiceless because schools are not giving them a platform to make a formal complaint when this is required.
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Author postprint can be found here http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/childrens-rights-and-childrens-wellbeing%28f0fe62d6-4160-4f3c-a00b-aacab493354c%29.html Children's rights and children's wellbeing are often casually paired together in both academic literature and policy discussions, but they differ conceptually, methodological...
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Over the past 20 years, children and young people’s participation in decision-making has become part of international, and often national, policy rhetoric. Participation activities have grown apace. These range from bringing children and young people to the international stage — for example, in person to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly Spe...
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Children and childhood are central to the current Government’s agenda in Scotland. “Making Scotland the best place to grow up in” has become a strapline for the Government, repeated across political speeches and policy documents. Numerous policy announcements have been tied to it, such as more early education and care provision, investment in impro...
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This article explores common dilemmas facing researchers and practitioners who wish to use digital media in research with children and young people. The article explores both cultural-social-economic and material approaches to digital media. These draw attention to five areas, explored in the article, which raise particular dilemmas and opportuniti...
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Children and Young People in Scotland: The Common Weal, Children’s Rights, Social Justice and Participation The rights of children and young people are inalienable - they cannot be taken or wished away. A new politics in Scotland should lead to the full incorporation of The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child - the most ratified h...
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Participation has become a rallying cry for those committed to respecting children and young people as social actors in their own right, as a part of communities and societies. Yet children and young people's participation has faced considerable challenges in realizing the rhetoric, with concerns being raised that too much emphasis has been placed...
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In their 2003 text book chapter, Kirby and Woodhead encourage readers to (re)consider their ideas about childhood by listing various proverbs. Some proverbs value children as a societal investment, such as ‘Children are the wealth of the nation’ (Tanzania), ‘It is the young trees that make the forest thick’ (Uganda) or ‘Educate the children so you...
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A wave of interest, policy and activities in children and young people's participation has passed through many countries over recent years. As participation activities have proliferated, so have challenges arisen as people have sought to translate the rhetoric of children and young people's participation into realities. Working across collaborators...
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The ‘new’ sociology of childhood emerged over 20 years ago, arguing for the social construction of childhood to be acknowledged and for the recognition of children and young people's agency and rights. Other disciplines joined this growing academic area, from children's geographies to law, so that the phrase ‘childhood studies’ has become a popular...
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Childhood studies have argued for the social construction of childhood, respecting children and childhood in the present, and recognising children's agency and rights. Such perspectives have parallels to, and challenges for, disability studies. This article considers such parallels and challenges, leading to a (re)consideration of research claims t...
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Children's participation generally-and children's participation in court proceedings when their parents divorce or separate specifically-has gained considerable policy and practice prominence. In 1995, the Children (Scotland) Act was passed; it was the most radical, across UK children's legislation, in specifying the requirement for children's part...
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Children's policy has emerged from the shadows of family and education policy over the last decade throughout the UK. The decade has also seen political and policy transformation, with the change of government from Conservatives to New Labour in 1997 and the latter's delivery on its promise of devolved administrations. Devolution has accompanied cl...
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'This text will be of great use to postgraduate researchers in education, social work and nursing, and any practitioner involved in carrying out research with children and young people' - CPD Update '[T]here is a sense of newness and innovation about the book, whereby the reader is treated to insight into the life and work of collaborators who wro...

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