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Handbook on Youth Activism
This dynamic Handbook offers state-of-the-art analysis of the new generation of youth activists who are demanding change. Bringing together eminent scholars, rising academic stars and youth activists, this Handbook provides a unique and essential insight into the power of youth activism today.
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This dynamic Handbook offers state-of-the-art analysis of the new generation of youth activists who are demanding change. Bringing together eminent scholars, rising academic stars and youth activists, this Handbook provides a unique and essential insight into the power of youth activism today.
Jerusha Conner deftly brings together contributors from the global north and south who explore youth activism through a range of multidisciplinary methods including systematic literature reviews, ethnographic studies, photo-voice exhibits and first-hand narrative accounts. Chapters cover the nature of youth activism in different geopolitical contexts, the invisible labour of youth activism, and the effects of youth activism on youth, their institutions, and societies. Presenting findings from cutting-edge research, this Handbook highlights how youth activists are sparking important conversations about what is right and what must change in their institutions, nation-states, and the world in order to secure a just and viable future for themselves and others.
An authoritative analysis of the field, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, students and researchers specialising in politics and public policy, sociology and social policy, education policy and the sociology of youth and childhood. It will also be of interest to youth activists and their allies to better understand, assess, and improve their movements’ efficacy.
Jerusha Conner deftly brings together contributors from the global north and south who explore youth activism through a range of multidisciplinary methods including systematic literature reviews, ethnographic studies, photo-voice exhibits and first-hand narrative accounts. Chapters cover the nature of youth activism in different geopolitical contexts, the invisible labour of youth activism, and the effects of youth activism on youth, their institutions, and societies. Presenting findings from cutting-edge research, this Handbook highlights how youth activists are sparking important conversations about what is right and what must change in their institutions, nation-states, and the world in order to secure a just and viable future for themselves and others.
An authoritative analysis of the field, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, students and researchers specialising in politics and public policy, sociology and social policy, education policy and the sociology of youth and childhood. It will also be of interest to youth activists and their allies to better understand, assess, and improve their movements’ efficacy.
Critical Acclaim
‘This Handbook provides a remarkable compendium of the essential work young people are doing to demand change at the local, national, and transnational levels. Although warned by the editors not to romanticize youth activists, it is impossible to walk away from this book without a deep sense of hope for the future.’
– Amy J. Binder, Johns Hopkins University, US
‘Jerusha Conner has pulled together a remarkable collection that reflects the diversity of the burgeoning field of research on youth activism. Like the field itself, these chapters are interdisciplinary, international, multi-method, and engaged with a wide range of theoretical traditions, but united in their commitment to taking youth activists seriously as a source of both social transformation and academic insight. This Handbook will be invaluable to anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, and political dynamics of contemporary youth activism.’
– Jessica Taft, University of California, Santa Cruz, US
‘This important book takes a much-needed global and environmental perspective to key issues of our time, providing new insights about how activism impacts young people, society, and their communities. Its deep description of local contexts and new methodologies honors the complexity of how young people challenge intersecting systems of power.’
– Matthew Diemer, University of Michigan, US
– Amy J. Binder, Johns Hopkins University, US
‘Jerusha Conner has pulled together a remarkable collection that reflects the diversity of the burgeoning field of research on youth activism. Like the field itself, these chapters are interdisciplinary, international, multi-method, and engaged with a wide range of theoretical traditions, but united in their commitment to taking youth activists seriously as a source of both social transformation and academic insight. This Handbook will be invaluable to anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, and political dynamics of contemporary youth activism.’
– Jessica Taft, University of California, Santa Cruz, US
‘This important book takes a much-needed global and environmental perspective to key issues of our time, providing new insights about how activism impacts young people, society, and their communities. Its deep description of local contexts and new methodologies honors the complexity of how young people challenge intersecting systems of power.’
– Matthew Diemer, University of Michigan, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Danielle N. Aguilar, M. Ainomugisha, Kayla M. Anderson, Nicolás Angelcos, Brendon Barnes, Judith Bessant, Gavin Brown, Maria Bruselius-Jensen, Chloé Buire, Daniela Chironi, Brian D. Christens, Alison K. Cohen, Jerusha Conner, Patricio Cuevas-Parra, Bharat Raj Dhakal, Donatella della Porta, Uyiosa Elegon, Svetlana Erpyleva, Oladimeji Fatoki, Jesica Siham Fernández, Constance Flanagan, Erin Gallay, Amanda Galczyk, Alexis E Hunter, Abraham Jones, Joseph KaiKai, Ben Kirshner, Yog Raj Lamichhane, Lucia Miranda Leibe, Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, Eeva Luhtakallio, Maurice Rafael Magaña, Carla Malafaia, Sara McAlister, Taina Meriluoto, Chiara Milan, Kathryn Y. Morgan, Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Olena Nikolayenko, Nicolas Ortiz, Marlene Palomar, Sarah Pickard, Ilaria Pitti, Alisa Pykett, Rinaldi Ridwan, Dolores Rocca Rivarola, Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Putri Widi Saraswati, Lema Shaltaf, Tiera Tanksley, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Rodrigo Torres, Jurhamuti José Velázquez Morales, Christopher M. Wegemer, Laura Wray-Lake, Anthony Gerard Wright
