Young People, Radical Democracy and Community Development

Janet Batsleer worked until recently as Reader in Community Education and Principal Lecturer in Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan UniversityHarriet Rowley is Senior Lecturer in Education and Community at Manchester Metropolitan University.Demet Lüküslü is Professor of Sociology at Yeditepe University, Turkey.

• PART I Young people: radical democracy and community developmentIntroduction: Young people, radical democracy and community development - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet LüküslüThinking/acting with migrants under neoliberalism: "It's horrible to perceive solidarity as merely absorbing the sorrow of one side". - Cihan ErdalPART II Young people acting together for eco-justiceImagining the future under capitalism: young people involved in environmental activism in an economic crisis - Dena AryaCommunity building for and through sustainable food - Dominic ZimmermannDaring, dissolving and dancing: making communities with water - Róisín O’GormanPART III Acts of citizenship?Community development, empowerment and youth participation in social-housing neighbourhoods in France - Gülçin ErdiLGBTQ+ young peoples’ sexuality and gender citizenship in digital spaces - Sally Carr and Ali HanburyEnabling spaces for and with marginalised young people: the case of the Disha peer support and speak out group - Sadhana NatuMeaningful youth engagement in community programming in Kenya - Yvonne Akinyi Ochieng, Su Lyn Corcoran and Kate PahlPART IV Black lives still matterConceptualising community development through a pedagogy of convivência: youth, race and territory in Brazil - Fernando Lannes Fernandes and Andrea Rodriguez"I did not want the project to end. For me, it should last forever": exploring a community development framework based on learned lessons from marginalised youth voices in Brazil - Andrea Rodriguez and Fernando Lannes FernandesBurning work: field map - Christxpher OliverPART V Practising hopeThey are not your warriors: intergenerational tensions and practices of hope in young people’s environmental activism - Dena AryaAfterword: Community as prefigurative practice – practices of hope - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküsl ü