Citizen Youth
Culture, Activism, and Agency in a Neoliberal Era
Series: Education, Politics and Public Life;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2011
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US
- Date of Publication 13 June 2011
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230106680
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages194 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 390 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XI, 194 p. 0
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Long description:
What are the ties that bind the 'good youth citizen' and the youth activist in the twenty-first century? Contemporary young people are encouraged - through education and other cultural sites - to 'save the world' via community projects that resemble activism, yet increasingly risk arrest for public acts of dissent. Citizen Youth goes to the heart of these contradictions, exploring the dilemmas and cultural dynamics of being young and politically engaged. Through an ethnographic study of young people working on activist causes across the three largest urban centres in one of the wealthiest nations in the world (Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, Canada), this book draws on Bourdieusian cultural sociology, feminist theories of agency, phenomenology, and political theories of the state and neoliberalism to understand what it means to be a certain kind of youth citizen in the twenty-first century. Accessibly written yet theoretically engaged, the book will be of interest to individuals both within academia and in the wider world of social movements and youth engagement.
MoreTable of Contents:
Citizen Youth' in the Twenty-First Century
Understanding Youth Political Engagement: Unpacking Youth Citizenship as Governance
Constructing the Good Youth Citizen: A History of the Present
Good Citizen/Bad Activist: The Cultural Role of the State in Youth Political Participation
Class Exclusions, Racialized Identities: The Symbolic Economy of Youth Activism
Becoming Actors: Agency and Youth Activist Subcultures
