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This book critically analyzes and theorizes trust dynamics in children´s lives and how they impact upon children´s participation, citizenship and well-being, drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that examines trust in various institutional and cultural contexts.

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Introduction; H.Warming & M.Christensen Theorising Trust: Citizenship Dynamics Conceptualization of the Relationship between Trust and Children´s Participation and Citizenship in Globalized Societies; H.Warming Adult Trust and Children´s Democratic Participation; H.Süncker & J.Moran-Ellis Trust Building and Violation During Childhood Consequences for Children´s Wellbeing and Dispositions for Trust in Later Life; J.Grosse & H.Warming Betrayal of Trust: Victims of Maternal Incest ; J.Turton Trust Relationships between Children, Social Welfare Professionals and the Organizations of Welfare; S.Pinkney Trust, Social Work and Care Ethics An Exploration of the Luhmannian Concept of Trust and Social Work with Children at Risk; M.Christensen Trust and Facilitation; C.Baraldi & F.Farini Negotiating ´Children´s Best Interests´; M.Pantea ´I trust my mom the most´: Trust Patterns of Contemporary Youth; M.Ule Conclusion: Potentials, Challenges and Limitations of the Trust Approach; H.Warming

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CLAUDIO BARALDI Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy MICHAEL CHRISTENSEN Doctoral Student, Roskilde University, Denmark FEDERICO FARINI Researcher in the Department of Language and Culture Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy JULIA GROSSE Researcher at the Institute for Civil Society Research at Ersta Sköndal University College and the Department of Social Work at Stockholm University, Sweden JO MORAN-ELLIS Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK SHARON PINKNEY Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University, UK HEINZ SÜNKER Professor in Social Pedagogy and Social Politics in the Faculty of Educational and Social Science at Wuppertal University, Germany JACKIE TURTON Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK MIRJANA ULE Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Slovenia

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