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Young People, Protest and Dissent

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Politics, Protest and Young People

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This chapter examines young people’s political protest that is growing in variety and intensity. Increasingly, youth-protests are no longer being organised through traditional hierarchical structures and channels of expression; instead new, leaderless and fluid networks operating horizontally offline and online are mobilising young people aided by digital technologies that facilitate protest organisation, mobilisation and participation, as well as the tactics used in the repertoire of political protest. The chapter first offers an overview of youth-led protests in Britain since the 1950s. It then documents how young people as a new precariat and environmentally aware citizens have been energetic protesters, contesting local, national and international issues, such as environmental degradation, social injustices and austerity as part of a global youth-led wave of protest and as young Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) political participants.

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Pickard, S. (2019). Young People, Protest and Dissent. In: Politics, Protest and Young People. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57788-7_13

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