Overview
- Goes beyond theorising what is wrong with the exclusion of youth politics from the scholarly and public debate
- Calls for recognition of grievances, tactics, strategies, politics and visions for change that are not readily legible
- Draws on feminism, anti-racist thought and critical race theory, legal theory, anti-colonial and decolonial theories
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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).
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Young People Shaping Democratic Politics
Book Subtitle: Interrogating Inclusion, Mobilising Education
Editors: Ian Rivers, C. Laura Lovin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29378-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29377-1Published: 13 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29380-1Due: 13 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29378-8Published: 12 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 283
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Politics, Politics and Gender, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Political Sociology, Political Science