{"product_id":"youth-power-in-precarious-times-9781478008071","title":"Youth Power in Precarious Times","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelissa Brough explores how youth-centered forms of civic and cultural engagement in Medellín, Colombia, create networks of change that have the possibility to transform and democratize cities around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In few world cities do creative vision and the long shadow of brutal institutionalized violence intersect more powerfully than in Medellín, Colombia. What would it mean to respond to that city's challenges using ‘participation’ as the guiding principle? Melissa Brough's rich and clear-sighted study of local participation within citizens' media, participatory budgeting, hip-hop collectives, and urban policy making is a major advance in our understanding of Latin America's distinctive path back towards democracy.” -- Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eYouth Power in Precarious Times\u003c\/i\u003e] presents an interesting case study mostly unknown by the academia outside the Global South, providing a significant contribution to the debate around participation, youth, and marginalized populations, while combining a variety of academic fields. . . . One of the book’s obvious merits lies in its resistance to binary thinking by proposing a conceptual frame that provides alternative readings about a socially complex reality.” -- José Alberto Simões * International Journal of Communication *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. From Participation to Polycultural Civics  16\u003cbr\u003e 2. Digitizing the Tools of Engagement  59\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"We Think about the City Differently\"  99\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Medellín, Governable and Participatory 145\u003cbr\u003e 5. Polycultural Civics in the Digital Age  189\u003cbr\u003e Notes  234\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  276\u003cbr\u003e Index  312","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408982778199,"sku":"9781478008071","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478008071.jpg?v=1730504961","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/youth-power-in-precarious-times-9781478008071","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}