Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crises

Sarah Pickard is Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. Her research on contemporary youth studies focuses on the interaction between youth policy and youth politics from sociological and political perspectives. She publishes primarily on the relationship between young people and political participation.Judith Bessant is Professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Australia. She publishes in the areas of sociology, youth studies, politics, policy and history, and also works as an advisor to governments and to non-government organisations.

“The editors, Sarah Pickard and Judith Bessant, have produced a remarkable volume of studies on young political activity. … It will be a useful resource for those working in the field of young people’s politics, but the power and scope of the book mean it would suit reading lists on social movements, direct action, the contemporary politics of democracy and so forth.” (Benjamin Bowman, Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 21, February, 2018)

• 1Introduction; Sarah Pickard and Judith Bessant.- Part IYoung People and Student Activism.- 2Young People and the #Hashtags That Broke the Rainbow Nation; Kgotsi Chikane.- 3Students Taking Action in Los Angeles Schools: An Ethnographic Case Study of Student Activism in the United States; Analicia Mejia Mesinas.- 4Professional Students Do Not Play Politics? Students Sense of Environmental Politics in Kenya; Grace Muthoni Mwaura.- 5The Good, the Bad and the Useless: Young People’s Political Action Repertoires in Quebec; Nicole Gallant.- Part IIYoung People and Online Political Action.- 6The Crisis of Democracy in Hong Kong: Young People’s online Politics and the Umbrella Movement; Rob Watts.- 7Momentum and the Movementist ‘Corbynistas’: Young People Regenerating the Labour Party in Britain; Sarah Pickard.- 8Right-wing Populism and Young ‘Stormers’: Conflict in Democratic Politics; Judith Bessant.- 9‘How Not to be a Terrorist’: Radicalisation and Young Western Muslims’ Digital Discourses; Andrew Hope and Julie Matthews.- 10Young People’s Political Participation in Europe in Times of Crisis; Maria T Grasso.- Part III Young People, Collective Identity and Community Building.- 11The Gezi Resistance of Turkey as Young People’s Counter-Conduct; Nilay Çabuk Kaya and Haktan Ural.- 12Off the Radar Democracy: Young People’s Alternate Acts of Citizenship in Australia; Lucas Walsh and Rosalyn Black.- 13(Re)Politicising Young People: From Scotland’s Indyref to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement; Alistair Fraser and Susan Batchelor, Leona Li Ngai Ling and Lisa Whittaker.- 14New Forms of Solidarity Among and for Young People: An Ethnography of Youth Participation in Italy; Nicola de Luigi, Alessandro Martelli and Ilaria Pitti.- 15Youth Heteropolitics in Crisis-ridden Greece; Alexandros Kioupkiolis and Yannis Pechtelidis.- Part IVYoung People and Protest as Politics.- 16Youth-led Struggles Against Racialized Crime Control in the United States; Tim Goddard and Randolph R Myers.- 17Youth Work, Agonistic Democracy and Transgressive Enjoyment in England; Graham Bright, Carole Pugh and Matthew Clarke.- 18Political Participation and Activism in the Post15m Era: An Ethnography About Youth Political Identifications in Lleida, Catalonia; Eduard Ballesté Isern and José Sánchez García.- 19New Modes of Youth Political Action and Democracy in the Americas: From the Chilean Spring to the Maple Spring in Quebec; Ricardo Peñafiel and Marie-Christine Doran.- 20Youth Participation in the Age of Austerity in Eastern Europe; Marko Kovacic and Danijela Dolenec.