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Youth and Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Youth and Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics
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Young people are very often the driving forces of political
participation that aims to change societies and political systems.
Rather than being depoliticized, young people in different national
contexts are giving rise to alternative politics. Drawing on
original survey data collected in 2018, this edited volume provides
a detailed analysis of youth participation in nine European
countries by focusing on socialization processes, different modes
of participation and the mobilization of youth politics. "This
volume is an indispensable guide to understanding young European's
experience and engagement of politics, the inequalities that shape
young people's political engagement and are sometimes replicated
through them, and young people's commitment to saving the
environment and spreading democratic ideals. Based on compelling
and extensive research across nine nations, this volume makes
important advances in key debates on youth politics and provides
critical empirical insights into which young people engage,
influences on young people's politics, how young people engage, why
some young people don't engage, and trends across nations. The
volume succeeds in the herculean task of focusing on specific
national contexts while also rendering a comprehensive picture of
youth politics and inequality in Europe today." -Jennifer Earl,
Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, USA "Forecasts by
social scientists of young people's increasingly apathetic stance
towards political participation appear to have been misplaced. This
text, drawing data and analysis across and between nine European
countries, captures the changing nature of political 'activism' by
young people. It indicates how this is strongly nuanced by factors
such as social class and gender identity. It also highlights
important distinctions between young people's approaches towards
more traditional (electoral) and more contemporary
(non-institutional) forms of participation. Critically, it
illuminates the many ways in which youth political participation
has evolved and transformed in recent years. Wider social
circumstances and experiences are identified as highly significant
in preparing young people for, and influencing their levels of
participation in, both protest-oriented action and electoral
politics." -Howard Williamson, Professor of European Youth Policy,
University of South Wales, UK "This book is an incredible guide to
understanding the role and sources of inequalities on young
people's political involvement. Country specific chapters allow the
authors to integrate a large number of the key and most pressing
issues regarding young people's relationship to politics in a
single volume. Topics range from social mobility and the influence
of socioeconomic (parental) resources and class; young people's
practice in the social sphere; the intersection of gender with
other sources of inequalities; online participation and its
relationship with social inequalities; the impact of harsh economic
conditions; the mobilization potential of the environmental cause;
to the role of political organizations. Integrating all these
pressing dimensions in a common framework and accompanying it with
extensive novel empirical evidence is a great achievement and the
result is a must read piece for researchers and practitioners
aiming to understand the challenges young people face in developing
their relationship to politics." -Gema Garcia-Albacete, Associate
Professor of Political Science, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain
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