ISBN:
9781920690304
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (486 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.230968
Keywords:
Youth Social conditions
;
Youth development
;
Youth Employment
;
Youth Economic conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- A note on definitions of youth -- ONE: INTRODUCTION. Waithood, ambiguous agency and young people in South Africa: Reflections on policies and realities -- EXCLUSION AND WAITHOOD AMONG SOUTH AFRICA'S YOUTH -- AMBIGUOUS AGENCY -- WAITHOOD -- YOUTH, THE CREATION OF WAITHOOD AND THE EXPECTATIONS OF AGENCY IN SOUTH AFRICA -- RE-IMAGINATION OF YOUTH IDENTITIES AS FLUID AND NON-STATIC -- REFERENCES -- Part One. Youth engagement with (under-)development -- TWO - Youth and development: The significance of 'youth moments' -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING KEY TERMS: YOUTH, YOUTH MOMENTS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY -- Defining youth -- Defining youth moments and movements -- Social movement theory -- EXPLORING A YOUTH MOMENT: THE FALLISM MOVEMENT AND #FEESMUSTFALL MOMENT -- Emergence -- Coalescence -- Institutionalisation -- Fragmentation -- Demise -- Revival -- LESSONS FROM THE YOUTH MOMENT -- Youth moments signal that the status quo needs to change -- Young people are powerful agents and mobilisers of social change -- Youth movements are vulnerable to co-optation -- Youth moments do not have to be momentary -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THREE - Perpetuating invisibility: Organised politics and alternative spaces in youth politics -- INTRODUCTION -- POST-COLONIAL YOUTH FORMATION -- POST-1968 YOUTH POLITICAL RESISTANCE -- TRANSITION AND REORGANISATION: FROM ANCYL TO EFF -- EFF AND YOUTH POLITICS: CONTRADICTIONS AND THE LIMITATIONS OF YOUTH VOICE -- FMF: Rupture and continuity -- BLACK YOUTH POLITICS THROUGH CULTURAL EXPRESSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CASE STUDY - #FeesMustFall and its unfortunate return to a silent revolution -- REFERENCES -- FOUR - Post-1994 youth policy: A critique of policy trajectory -- INTRODUCTION.
Abstract:
"South Africa is characterised by a youthful population, and the challenges and possibilities that characterise the young generation are both warning signs and beacons of hope for a nation founded on social justice. Youth in South Africa: Agency, (in)visibility and national development takes stock of the nation's development as it affects young people. Authors offer both personal and professional insights into the ways in which the youth navigate their own pathways to adulthood. These include formal and informal engagements with politics, as well as protest, (un)employment, entrepreneurship, education, religion, experiences with sexuality and violence and a multitude of other life experiences. Contributors paint a picture of the initiative, agency and resilience of the youth, as well as the challenges before them. Authors also identify the state of "waithood" faced by those unable to make the transition out of youth into full adulthood as a result of their socio-economic circumstances and political context. By engaging these experiences and insights, and primarily informed by the inputs of young people, the authors highlight the limitations of existing youth policies."--
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