Edited by Judith Bessant, Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Philippa Collin, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Patrick O’Keeffe, Senior Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia

‘The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth is an ambitious volume, combining twenty-seven chapters by fifty authors from across the globe, alongside commentaries from young people themselves. With questions of politics, representation, injustice and exclusion to the fore, it is an expansive and engaging examination of youth sociology today, enriched by extensive research and critique from the Global South.’

• ContentsList of contributors viiiForeword by Raewyn Connell xviiiAcknowledgements xxii1 Introduction: The sociology of youth 1Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin and Patrick O’KeeffeSECTION 1 POLITICS AND THE POLITICALCommentary 20Mary Ruzzel Morales2 A revisionist account of the crisis of democracy and ‘youth participation’ 23Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin and Rob Watts3 Thinking sociologically about young people and the far-right 39Pam Nilan and Tim Gentles4 Beyond the indignation of young climate activists: the political potential ofclimate-emotions 53Louise Knops5 Researching the criminalisation of young people’s dissent: insights fromSoutheast Asia 69Chris Millora and Renee KarununganSECTION 2 EQUITY AND JUSTICECommentary 84Abraham Padiet Kuol6 Young people, citizenship and climate justice 87Amelia Woods, Bronwyn Hayward, Ruth McManus and Sacha McMeeking7 Making young people investable: financing social services through SocialImpact Bonds 102Patrick O’Keeffe8 Researching racial justice in United States schooling: youth silence and voice 117Hava Rachel Gordon9 Towards a sociology of global south youth: navigating material differencesand false binaries 131Adam Cooper and Sharlene Swartz10 Gigs, hustles and hope: mixed livelihoods for global youth beyond the wage 150Adam Cooper and Bernard DubbeldCommentary 165Zimingonaphakade Sigenu, Liona Muchenje and Theresa AyerigahSECTION 3 RESEARCH, MEANING AND KNOWLEDGE MAKINGCommentary 169Bojana Koralevic11 Knowing young people and social media: platforms, everyday cultures, riskand datafication 172Natalie Ann Hendry12 Conceptual and methodological issues in research with disabled youthin the Global South: towards decolonial futures in pandemic times 186Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Karen Soldatic and Hannah Dyer13 Encouraging young people’s collective struggles against the climate crisis:radical democratic education in the era of marketization 200Katariina Tiainen and Crystal Green14 Understanding young people’s visual politics: making young people’sparticipation (more) visible 215Michelle CatanzaroSECTION 4 DISRUPTIONSCommentary 238Anastasiia Lytvyniuk15 Eating our young: time for the state to rein in Big Tech 240Rys Farthing and Judith Bessant16 Disruptive do-it-ourselves politics: young climate and environmental activists 254Sarah Pickard17 Advocating for food sovereignty in the UN Committee on World FoodSecurity: facilitating young people’s participation in policy making 268Anisah Madden, Jessie MacInnis and Nicole Maria Yanes18 The feminista encapuchada: gender justice and affective (de)attachments inthe Chilean high school feminist movement 286Valentina Err.zuriz19 Refugees welcome? Refugee young people, vulnerability, conditionality andbelonging in Europe 301Ala SirriyehSECTION 5 HEALTH AND WELLBEINGCommentary 316Anhaar Kareem20 Blak spaces or queer spaces: how having a multiplicity of identities impactsthe health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQ+young people in Australia 319Mandy Henningham21 Youth, health and the digital 336Benjamin Hanckel and Philippa Collin22 ‘What about the young people?’ A media analysis of youth mental healththrough Victoria’s Covid lockdowns 351Kathryn Daley, Belinda Johnson and Patrick O’Keeffe23 Young people’s participation in the National Health Insurance Policy inSouth Africa 367Naledi Mpanza and Patrick O’KeeffeSECTION 6 ETHICS, RESEARCH POLICY AND PRACTICECommentary 383Lena De Eccher24 On Bourdieu’s sociological method, symbolic violence, and good practicein sociology of youth research 386Michael Emslie25 Young people and participatory research in times of crises 401Benjamin Bowman26 Visibility, voice and emancipation: suggestions for decolonising researchethics in the sociology of youth 416Sharlene Swartz, Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh and Alude Mahali27 Ethics, research policy and practice: changes, challenges and dilemmas inethnographic youth research 429Carles Feixa P.mpols, Jos. S.nchez-Garc.a and Gemma Aubarell-SoldugaIndex 444

Edited by Judith Bessant, Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Philippa Collin, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Patrick O’Keeffe, Senior Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia

‘The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth is an ambitious volume, combining twenty-seven chapters by fifty authors from across the globe, alongside commentaries from young people themselves. With questions of politics, representation, injustice and exclusion to the fore, it is an expansive and engaging examination of youth sociology today, enriched by extensive research and critique from the Global South.’

• ContentsList of contributors viiiForeword by Raewyn Connell xviiiAcknowledgements xxii1 Introduction: The sociology of youth 1Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin and Patrick O’KeeffeSECTION 1 POLITICS AND THE POLITICALCommentary 20Mary Ruzzel Morales2 A revisionist account of the crisis of democracy and ‘youth participation’ 23Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin and Rob Watts3 Thinking sociologically about young people and the far-right 39Pam Nilan and Tim Gentles4 Beyond the indignation of young climate activists: the political potential ofclimate-emotions 53Louise Knops5 Researching the criminalisation of young people’s dissent: insights fromSoutheast Asia 69Chris Millora and Renee KarununganSECTION 2 EQUITY AND JUSTICECommentary 84Abraham Padiet Kuol6 Young people, citizenship and climate justice 87Amelia Woods, Bronwyn Hayward, Ruth McManus and Sacha McMeeking7 Making young people investable: financing social services through SocialImpact Bonds 102Patrick O’Keeffe8 Researching racial justice in United States schooling: youth silence and voice 117Hava Rachel Gordon9 Towards a sociology of global south youth: navigating material differencesand false binaries 131Adam Cooper and Sharlene Swartz10 Gigs, hustles and hope: mixed livelihoods for global youth beyond the wage 150Adam Cooper and Bernard DubbeldCommentary 165Zimingonaphakade Sigenu, Liona Muchenje and Theresa AyerigahSECTION 3 RESEARCH, MEANING AND KNOWLEDGE MAKINGCommentary 169Bojana Koralevic11 Knowing young people and social media: platforms, everyday cultures, riskand datafication 172Natalie Ann Hendry12 Conceptual and methodological issues in research with disabled youthin the Global South: towards decolonial futures in pandemic times 186Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Karen Soldatic and Hannah Dyer13 Encouraging young people’s collective struggles against the climate crisis:radical democratic education in the era of marketization 200Katariina Tiainen and Crystal Green14 Understanding young people’s visual politics: making young people’sparticipation (more) visible 215Michelle CatanzaroSECTION 4 DISRUPTIONSCommentary 238Anastasiia Lytvyniuk15 Eating our young: time for the state to rein in Big Tech 240Rys Farthing and Judith Bessant16 Disruptive do-it-ourselves politics: young climate and environmental activists 254Sarah Pickard17 Advocating for food sovereignty in the UN Committee on World FoodSecurity: facilitating young people’s participation in policy making 268Anisah Madden, Jessie MacInnis and Nicole Maria Yanes18 The feminista encapuchada: gender justice and affective (de)attachments inthe Chilean high school feminist movement 286Valentina Err.zuriz19 Refugees welcome? Refugee young people, vulnerability, conditionality andbelonging in Europe 301Ala SirriyehSECTION 5 HEALTH AND WELLBEINGCommentary 316Anhaar Kareem20 Blak spaces or queer spaces: how having a multiplicity of identities impactsthe health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQ+young people in Australia 319Mandy Henningham21 Youth, health and the digital 336Benjamin Hanckel and Philippa Collin22 ‘What about the young people?’ A media analysis of youth mental healththrough Victoria’s Covid lockdowns 351Kathryn Daley, Belinda Johnson and Patrick O’Keeffe23 Young people’s participation in the National Health Insurance Policy inSouth Africa 367Naledi Mpanza and Patrick O’KeeffeSECTION 6 ETHICS, RESEARCH POLICY AND PRACTICECommentary 383Lena De Eccher24 On Bourdieu’s sociological method, symbolic violence, and good practicein sociology of youth research 386Michael Emslie25 Young people and participatory research in times of crises 401Benjamin Bowman26 Visibility, voice and emancipation: suggestions for decolonising researchethics in the sociology of youth 416Sharlene Swartz, Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh and Alude Mahali27 Ethics, research policy and practice: changes, challenges and dilemmas inethnographic youth research 429Carles Feixa P.mpols, Jos. S.nchez-Garc.a and Gemma Aubarell-SoldugaIndex 444

Edited by Judith Bessant, Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Philippa Collin, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Patrick O’Keeffe, Senior Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia

‘The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth is an ambitious volume, combining twenty-seven chapters by fifty authors from across the globe, alongside commentaries from young people themselves. With questions of politics, representation, injustice and exclusion to the fore, it is an expansive and engaging examination of youth sociology today, enriched by extensive research and critique from the Global South.’

• ContentsList of contributors viiiForeword by Raewyn Connell xviiiAcknowledgements xxii1 Introduction: The sociology of youth 1Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin and Patrick O’KeeffeSECTION 1 POLITICS AND THE POLITICALCommentary 20Mary Ruzzel Morales2 A revisionist account of the crisis of democracy and ‘youth participation’ 23Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin and Rob Watts3 Thinking sociologically about young people and the far-right 39Pam Nilan and Tim Gentles4 Beyond the indignation of young climate activists: the political potential ofclimate-emotions 53Louise Knops5 Researching the criminalisation of young people’s dissent: insights fromSoutheast Asia 69Chris Millora and Renee KarununganSECTION 2 EQUITY AND JUSTICECommentary 84Abraham Padiet Kuol6 Young people, citizenship and climate justice 87Amelia Woods, Bronwyn Hayward, Ruth McManus and Sacha McMeeking7 Making young people investable: financing social services through SocialImpact Bonds 102Patrick O’Keeffe8 Researching racial justice in United States schooling: youth silence and voice 117Hava Rachel Gordon9 Towards a sociology of global south youth: navigating material differencesand false binaries 131Adam Cooper and Sharlene Swartz10 Gigs, hustles and hope: mixed livelihoods for global youth beyond the wage 150Adam Cooper and Bernard DubbeldCommentary 165Zimingonaphakade Sigenu, Liona Muchenje and Theresa AyerigahSECTION 3 RESEARCH, MEANING AND KNOWLEDGE MAKINGCommentary 169Bojana Koralevic11 Knowing young people and social media: platforms, everyday cultures, riskand datafication 172Natalie Ann Hendry12 Conceptual and methodological issues in research with disabled youthin the Global South: towards decolonial futures in pandemic times 186Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Karen Soldatic and Hannah Dyer13 Encouraging young people’s collective struggles against the climate crisis:radical democratic education in the era of marketization 200Katariina Tiainen and Crystal Green14 Understanding young people’s visual politics: making young people’sparticipation (more) visible 215Michelle CatanzaroSECTION 4 DISRUPTIONSCommentary 238Anastasiia Lytvyniuk15 Eating our young: time for the state to rein in Big Tech 240Rys Farthing and Judith Bessant16 Disruptive do-it-ourselves politics: young climate and environmental activists 254Sarah Pickard17 Advocating for food sovereignty in the UN Committee on World FoodSecurity: facilitating young people’s participation in policy making 268Anisah Madden, Jessie MacInnis and Nicole Maria Yanes18 The feminista encapuchada: gender justice and affective (de)attachments inthe Chilean high school feminist movement 286Valentina Err.zuriz19 Refugees welcome? Refugee young people, vulnerability, conditionality andbelonging in Europe 301Ala SirriyehSECTION 5 HEALTH AND WELLBEINGCommentary 316Anhaar Kareem20 Blak spaces or queer spaces: how having a multiplicity of identities impactsthe health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQ+young people in Australia 319Mandy Henningham21 Youth, health and the digital 336Benjamin Hanckel and Philippa Collin22 ‘What about the young people?’ A media analysis of youth mental healththrough Victoria’s Covid lockdowns 351Kathryn Daley, Belinda Johnson and Patrick O’Keeffe23 Young people’s participation in the National Health Insurance Policy inSouth Africa 367Naledi Mpanza and Patrick O’KeeffeSECTION 6 ETHICS, RESEARCH POLICY AND PRACTICECommentary 383Lena De Eccher24 On Bourdieu’s sociological method, symbolic violence, and good practicein sociology of youth research 386Michael Emslie25 Young people and participatory research in times of crises 401Benjamin Bowman26 Visibility, voice and emancipation: suggestions for decolonising researchethics in the sociology of youth 416Sharlene Swartz, Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh and Alude Mahali27 Ethics, research policy and practice: changes, challenges and dilemmas inethnographic youth research 429Carles Feixa P.mpols, Jos. S.nchez-Garc.a and Gemma Aubarell-SoldugaIndex 444