Childhood, Youth and Activism

Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates

Katie Wright, Julie McLeod, Katie Wright, Julie McLeod

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781801174695
• eBook ISBN: 9781801174701
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Marriage & Family Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

In a time of ongoing global instability and the emergence of new fault lines of social inequality generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rights of children and young people have been thrown into sharp relief. From uncertain futures arising from the climate crisis to concerns about regressive and reactionary politics to widespread experiences of harassment, abuse and violence, young people and their advocates are mobilising for social change and making their voices heard.

Across a variety of topics that engage diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, Childhood, Youth and Activism: Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates offers a rich exploration of the dynamics between children, youth, activism, and advocacy. The chapters investigate the forms of agency expressed by young people themselves, the hope embodied in social movements, and the centrality of activism and advocacy for creating more hopeful and just futures.

Considering the meanings of activism by and for children and young people in the twenty-first century, this edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, educators and practitioners interested in the intersections of childhood and youth studies, activism and movements for social change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Chapter 1. Activism, Rights and Hope: Young People and Their Advocates Mobilising for Social Change
• Chapter 2. ‘Discovering’ Children’s Voices: Debating Children’s Rights and Participation in the International Year of the Child (1979)
• Chapter 3. Adults Claiming Child Rights: Activism, Temporality and Abuse in Childhood
• Chapter 4. ‘When We Can’t Vote, Action is All We Have’: Student Climate Politics, Rights and Justice
• Chapter 5. Appearing as Impossible Subjects on the Scene of Education: Potato Smashing, LYING ON SOFAS and Asking for a Key
• Chapter 6. ‘Pipe Down Silly Girl’: The Silencing, Vilification and Discrediting of Girl Activists
• Chapter 7. Young People’s Climate Activism and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Chapter 8. Young People’s Activism in Rural Communities: A Mixed-methods Case Study with Young People from a Rural Municipality in Germany
• Chapter 9. Red vs Blue, Black vs White and Other State Factors in the 2018 Parkland School Shooting Protests in the USA
• Chapter 10. Citizenship Educators’ Vision of Young People’s Activism in Asian Society: A Qualitative Case Study of Secondary School Teachers in Japan
• Chapter 11. Adults as Advocates: How Sexual Abuse was Put on the Child Rights Map in India
• Chapter 12. The Kids are Alt-right (and Progressive, Conservative, Radical, etc.): ‘Selective Advocacy’ in Childhood and Youth Studies