Young People Shaping Democratic Politics

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.

• 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.