Inhaltliche Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- Black Youth Activism Was Pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement: How Black Lives Matter is Inspiring Education Activists Today -- Political Participation of Young People in Serbia: Activities, Values, and Capability -- The 2018 Road Safety Protest in Bangladesh: How a Student Crown Challenged (or Could not Challenge) the Repressive State -- From the Streets to the Campus: The Institutionalization of Youth Anti-Sexual Harassment Activism in Post-Coup Egypt -- When David Defeats Goliath. The Case of MeToo University: The Solidarity Network of Victims of Gender-Based Violence in Universities -- Practising Sectarianism: Lebanese Youth Politics and the Complexity of Youth Political Engagement -- Interrogating Vulnerability within the University: A Case Study of Undocumented/DACAmented Students at a Jesuit Institution -- Making Visible Intersectional Black Pain: Embodied Activism and Affective Communities in Recent South African Youth Movements -- Existential Activism: The Complex Contestations of Trans Youth -- Critical Literacies and the Conditions of Decolonial Possibility -- Conclusion: International Perspectives on Youth Political Mobilizations.
At a time when political mobilisation is a symptom of social dissatisfaction, young people’s participation in political decision-making, practice and ideological change, make foregrounding and investigating their political practices a necessity. The title of this book, Young People Shaping Democratic Politics: Interrogating Inclusion, Mobilising Education clearly announces its intention, subject, and mission. This collection has been inspired by topical youth mobilisations that aim to address injustices and inequalities which are rooted in poverty, austerity, violence, increased surveillance, climate change, dislocation, xenophobia, the rise of authoritarian regimes, and a global turn to the political right. Whereas young people are politicised in moments of conflict and become symbolic conduits for the future of their nation, they represent a category most often relegated to the apolitical sphere before and after such moments of crisis. This edited collection seeks to expand our engagement with inclusion beyond educational institutions by situating young people at the centre of our inquiry, as agents of political processes that promote, problematise and re-imagine inclusive societies. The chapters engage in contemporary case-studies, which are mapped across a wide range of countries from Europe (Serbia, Spain and United Kingdom), North Africa (Egypt), South Africa, North America (United States), South-Asia (Bangladesh), and West Asia (Lebanon). Ian Rivers is Associate Principal and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK. C. Laura Lovin is an independent scholar and artist whose work centers on the intersections of feminist, queer and critical race theories within contexts of social movements, labor justice activism, cities and migration, art and visual cultures. |
