Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crises (Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics)

This book provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways. The authors, who include academics and activists, challenge claims that young people are apolitical, apathetic and living up to the ‘me generation’ stereotype. Contributions cover a rich body of case examples of traditional and new forms of youth politics in response to situated injustices and political and socio-economic crises. Significant and optimistic, the collection presents strong evidence from across the globe that these developments are not isolated incidences, but are in fact part of a systemic, large-scale transformation leading to a regeneration of the political landscape by young people. The book is aimed at students and scholars in the fields of politics, sociology, policy studies and youth and childhood studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction (Sarah Pickard, Judith Bessant)....Pages 1-16 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Young People and the #Hashtags That Broke the Rainbow Nation (Rekgotsofetse Chikane)....Pages 19-39 Students Taking Action in Los Angeles Schools: An Ethnographic Case Study of Student Activism in the United States (Analicia Mejia Mesinas)....Pages 41-57 ‘Professional Students Do Not Play Politics’: How Kenyan Students Professionalise Environmental Activism and Produce Neoliberal Subjectivities (Grace Muthoni Mwaura)....Pages 59-76 The ‘Good,’ the ‘Bad’ and the ‘Useless’: Young People’s Political Action Repertoires in Quebec (Nicole Gallant)....Pages 77-94 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 The Crisis of Democracy in Hong Kong: Young People’s Online Politics and the Umbrella Movement (Rob Watts)....Pages 97-113 Momentum and the Movementist ‘Corbynistas’: Young People Regenerating the Labour Party in Britain (Sarah Pickard)....Pages 115-137 Right-Wing Populism and Young ‘Stormers’: Conflict in Democratic Politics (Judith Bessant)....Pages 139-159 ‘How Not to Be a Terrorist’: Radicalisation and Young Western Muslims’ Digital Discourses (Andrew Hope, Julie Matthews)....Pages 161-177 Young People’s Political Participation in Europe in Times of Crisis (Maria Grasso)....Pages 179-196 Front Matter ....Pages 197-197 The Gezi Resistance of Turkey as Young People’s Counter-Conduct (Nilay Çabuk Kaya, Haktan Ural)....Pages 199-215 Off the Radar Democracy: Young People’s Alternative Acts of Citizenship in Australia (Lucas Walsh, Rosalyn Black)....Pages 217-232 (Re)Politicising Young People: From Scotland’s Indyref to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (Susan Batchelor, Alistair Fraser, Leona Li Ngai Ling, Lisa Whittaker)....Pages 233-251 New Forms of Solidarity and Young People: An Ethnography of Youth Participation in Italy (Nicola De Luigi, Alessandro Martelli, Ilaria Pitti)....Pages 253-271 Youth Heteropolitics in Crisis-Ridden Greece (Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Yannis Pechtelidis)....Pages 273-293 Front Matter ....Pages 295-295 Youth-Led Struggles Against Racialized Crime Control in the United States (Tim Goddard, Randolph R. Myers)....Pages 297-313 Youth Work, Agonistic Democracy and Transgressive Enjoyment in England (Graham Bright, Carole Pugh, Matthew Clarke)....Pages 315-332 Political Participation and Activism in the Post-15m Era: Young People’s Political Identifications in Lleida, Catalonia (Eduard Ballesté Isern, José Sánchez García)....Pages 333-348 New Modes of Youth Political Action and Democracy in the Americas: From the Chilean Spring to the Maple Spring in Quebec (Ricardo Peñafiel, Marie-Christine Doran)....Pages 349-373 Youth Participation in Eastern Europe in the Age of Austerity (Marko Kovacic, Danijela Dolenec)....Pages 375-394 Back Matter ....Pages 395-410 This text provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways. The authors, who include academics and activists, challenge claims that young people are apolitical, apathetic and living up to the 'me generation' stereotype. Contributions cover a rich body of case examples of traditional and new forms of youth politics in response to situated injustices and political and socio-economic crises. Significant and optimistic, the collection presents strong evidence from across the globe that these developments are not isolated incidences, but are in fact part of a systemic, large-scale transformation leading to a regeneration of the political landscape by young people