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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Active Citizenship-A Troubled Concept -- Binaries of Civic Participation -- A Typology of Active Citizenship -- Contemporary Youth Studies: Insightful Departures for Active Citizenship -- Methods -- Data Collection -- Analysis -- Ethics and Reflexivity -- The Structure of This Book -- References -- 2 Motivations for Joining and Engaging in Youth Organisations in the Italian Context -- Introduction -- Youth Organisations in the Community Psychology Perspective -- Methods |
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Participants -- Research Design -- Data Collection and Analysis -- What Does the Data Show? -- Initial Motivations for Joining Youth Organisations and Initiatives -- Motivations Which Sustain Active Citizenship -- Discussion -- References -- 3 Youth Organisations as a Developmental Context: A Developmental Psychological Perspective -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- The Development of Engagement Among Young People -- Characteristics of Engaged Adolescents -- The Current Study -- Target Group -- General Structure of the Group -- Method -- Results -- Motivation -- Goals -- Values |
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Self-Efficacy -- Success -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 4 Between Emotion and Reason: The Role of Affective Networks and Events in Sustaining the Daily Experience of Environmental Activism -- Introduction -- Activism: How Reason and Emotion Intersect -- Youth Activism, Professionalisation and NGOisation -- Contextualising the Ethnographic Field Site -- The Portuguese Context -- The Case of Cidade+: A General Characterisation -- Method -- Internal Tensions: Intertwining Reason and Emotions in Environmental Activism |
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Collective Tensions: The 'Friendship Network' and the Road to Professionalisation -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Preaching to the Choir: Patterns of Non/diversity in Youth Citizenship Movements -- Introduction -- Conceptualising Diversity in a Marketised World -- "Diversity" as Neoliberal -- "Diversity" as Disempowering, Obscuring, and Redirecting Struggles for Structural Justice -- The Promise and Problems of Youth Diversity in UK Active Citizenship -- My Life My Say and Momentum: A Portrait of Youth-Led Politics in the Brexit Era -- Methods -- Conceptualising and Enacting Diversity Work |
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My Life My Say: Diversity as Foundational, Explicit, Networked-and Neoliberal -- Diversity in Organisational Communications -- Other Aspects of 'Diversity' -- Momentum: Diversity as Implicit, Contingent and Rhetorical -- Campaign Group Communications -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 When Facebook Is (Not) Enough: Hybridity in the Media and Political Strategies of Leftist Youth Organisations -- Introduction -- New Media, Participation and Hybridity -- Hybridity as Organic and Organised Politics: The Idealists (CR) and Momentum (UK) -- The Importance of Being Online |
| Summary |
This volume engages with the contested concept of 'active citizenship'. It analyses the use and understanding of active citizenship in youth civic and political initiatives in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the UK. Using ethnographic data and insights from the cross-European project CATCH-EyoU, the contributors to this collection illuminate the experiences of young people taking action for social change. It does so at a unique moment when a resurgent populist political right is deploying racial prejudice and neoliberal protectionism in both established media and new digital media to fuel xenophobic nationalism. The book asks a range of questions, including: What is life like for active young citizens with an interest in the civic and political spheres? What practices, relationships and motivations characterise their participatory movements, organisations, initiatives and groups? The chapters use case studies to analyse how friendship and emotion, social media, diversity-work, racism, precarity and burnout feed into motivating and developing or curtailing sustained pro-democratic activism. Youth Active Citizenship in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including politics, sociology, education and cultural studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Youth -- Political activity -- European Union countries
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Sociology: family & relationships.
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Cultural studies.
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Sociology.
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Social Science -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
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Social Science -- Children's Studies.
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Social Science -- Sociology -- General.
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Youth -- Political activity
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European Union countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Banaji, Shakuntala, 1971- editor.
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Mejias, Sam, editor
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| ISBN |
9783030357948 |
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3030357945 |
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