{"product_id":"handbook-on-youth-activism-9781803923215","title":"Handbook on Youth Activism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJerusha 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘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.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- Amy J. Binder, Johns Hopkins University, US\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘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.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- Jessica Taft, University of California, Santa Cruz, US\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘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.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- Matthew Diemer, University of Michigan, US\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Introduction: youth activism in a context of global uncertainty and biographical precarity xix Jerusha Conner, Uyiosa Elegon and Alison K. Cohen  PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 1 The political participation of young people in times of crisis: a framework for analysis 2 Daniela Chironi, Donatella della Porta and Chiara Milan 2 Developmental foundations of environmental activism 16 Alisa A. Pykett, Erin Gallay and Constance Flanagan 3 The disruptive power of recognition and young environmental activists 31 Judith Bessant and Sarah Pickard 4 Using a human rights lens: learning from children’s activism 46 E. Kay M. Tisdall and Patricio Cuevas-Parra  PART II YOUTH ACTIVISM IN SPECIFIC GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTS 5 Youth activism in Ukraine before and during the Russia–Ukraine war 61 Olena Nikolayenko 6 Why and how South Asian youth are involved in politics: a systematic review of literature 75 Yog Raj Lamichhane and Bharat Raj Dhakal 7 Charting youth activism in Chile: contemporary areas and trends 91 Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Lucía Miranda Leibe, Rodrigo Torres, Nicolás Ortiz and Nicolás Angelcos  PART III METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE STUDY OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 8 Methods for a multimodal, collaborative, and engaged research practice: mapping youth activism and cultural production across time and space 107 Maurice Rafael Magaña, Anthony Gerard Wright and Jurhamuti José Velázquez Morales 9 By us, for us: a women of color student activist photo-narrative exhibit for sociopolitical wellbeing 123 Jesica Siham Fernández and Danielle N. Aguilar 10 Visual politicization and youth challenges to an unequal public sphere: conceptual and methodological perspectives 140 Eeva Luhtakallio, Taina Meriluoto and Carla Malafaia 11 Ambivalent narratives of the political self: notes on the coproduction of audio-visual stories in Cape Town and Luanda 154 Chloé Buire  PART IV THE NATURE OF YOUTH ACTIVISTS’ LABOR 12 Keeping the store in order: an ethnography of youth activism’s everyday work 169 Ilaria Pitti 13 Coming out in solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy as a space of support and experimentation for queer youth 183 Gavin Brown 14 Racism and youth climate activism: what can we learn from racism allegations about the image exclusions of black women activists? 196 Brendon Barnes 15 Enabling conditions and challenges of youth sexual and reproductive rights activism in Indonesia 210 Rinaldi Ridwan and Putri Widi Saraswati 16 An ideal activist in a privileged society: studying the internal negotiations and practices of being a young Danish activist 226 Maria Bruselius-Jensen  PART V EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON YOUTH 17 Reframing school engagement: relationships to school among youth organizing participants working for educational justice 241 Sara McAlister 18 Movements forward: finding healing through activism 257 Marlene Palomar, Abraham Jones and Ben Kirshner 19 Black youth, digital activism, and racial battle fatigue: how Black youth enact hope, humor, and healing online 272 Tiera Tanksley and Alexis E. Hunter 20 Political context and Russian youth: the political socialization of young activists under authoritarianism 289 Svetlana Erpyleva  PART VI EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON THEIR INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY 21 “These are my greatest accomplishments”: how US youth activists frame their biggest wins 304 Oladimeji Fatoki, Amanda Galczyk, Christopher M. Wegemer, Laura Wray-Lake and Jerusha Conner 22 “Real change takes time”: building multi-dimensional youth community power in a participatory design collective 319 Kathryn Y. Morgan, Kayla Anderson, Joseph KaiKai, Lema Shaltaf and Brian D. Christens 23 On and off: representations and omissions of youth activism in political campaign ads (Brazil and Argentina, 1980s and 2010s) 336 Dolores Rocca Rivarola 24 #WeAreRemovingADictator: the 2021 Uganda election crisis, the possibilities and limits of youth digital activism 351 M. Ainomugisha and Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire 25 The White Ribbon movement and its achievement in uprooting the conservative Thai state 365 Kanokrat Lertchoosakul","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49412952228183,"sku":"9781803923215","price":205.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781803923215.jpg?v=1730518645","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/handbook-on-youth-activism-9781803923215","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}