Overview
- Profiles new forms of political action emerging from young people
- Challenges the popular ideas and arguments that young people are now largely apolitical, apathetic and not interested in political participation
- Offers a global perspective on youth politics with contributions from North America, Australia, Africa, Central and Latin America, Asia and a number of European nations
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics (PSYPP)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Young People and Student Activism
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Young People and Online Political Action
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Young People, Collective Identity and Community Building
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Young People and Protest as Politics
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Keywords
- political participation of young people
- new forms of politics
- youth politics in South Africa
- youth politics in the USA
- youth politics in Kenya
- youth politics in Canada
- youth politics in Hong Kong
- youth politics in Britain
- Corbynism and Corbynistas
- young Muslims and politics
- youth participation in democracy
- youth politics in Turkey
- youth politics in Australia
- youth politics in Scotland
- youth politics in Italy
- youth politics in Greece
- youth politics in the Americas
- youth politics in Eastern Europe
- technology and politics
- social media and politics
About this book
This book provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways. The authors, who include academics and activists, challenge claims that young people are apolitical, apathetic and living up to the ‘me generation’ stereotype. Contributions cover a rich body of case examples of traditional and new forms of youth politics in response to situated injustices and political and socio-economic crises. Significant and optimistic, the collection presents strong evidence from across the globe that these developments are not isolated incidences, but are in fact part of a systemic, large-scale transformation leading to a regeneration of the political landscape by young people. The book is aimed at students and scholars in the fields of politics, sociology, policy studies and youth and childhood studies.
Reviews
“Young people remaking politics, restoring hope, and showing new ways of engaging the world and living lives of meaning. In Young people re-generating politics in times of crises Pickard and Bessant have gathered together a wide array of scholars, many of whom are themselves young, and have shown how a new generation are remaking the political order through their brave, defiant and creative strategies and theorising. The 34 contributors – from Europe, the US and Australia but also South Africa, Turkey, Croatia, Kenya and Chile– address all of the pressing issues of our time: authoritarianism, repression, austerity, marketization, environmental degradation, unemployment, racism, decolonisation…. This is an expansive, up to date expose, critique and agenda for action – all in one place. It is the reset button for youth activism and the new lens for viewing youth political engagement we have long needed.” (Professor Sharlene Swartz, Associate Professor Sociology, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Director: Human and Social Development, Human Sciences Research Council)
“This powerful and inspiring collection of essays should finally lay to rest the idea that youth and political apathy are one and the same. If you want to comprehend the forces that will shape politics in the years to come, this book is absolutely essential reading.” (Shiv Malik, journalist and author of Jilted Generation: How Britain Bankrupted its Youth)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah Pickard is Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. Her research on contemporary youth studies focuses on the interaction between youth policy and youth politics from sociological and political perspectives. She publishes primarily on the relationship between young people and political participation.
Judith Bessant is Professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Australia. She publishes in the areas of sociology, youth studies, politics, policy and history, and also works as an advisor to governments and to non-government organisations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crises
Editors: Sarah Pickard, Judith Bessant
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58250-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58249-8Published: 10 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86359-7Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58250-4Published: 31 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-501X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 410
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Democracy, Political Sociology, Public Policy, Youth Culture