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Youth Power in Precarious Times - Reimagining Civic Participation (Hardcover)
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Youth Power in Precarious Times - Reimagining Civic Participation (Hardcover)
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Does youth participation hold the potential to change entrenched
systems of power and to reshape civic life? In Youth Power in
Precarious Times Melissa Brough examines how the city of Medellin,
Colombia, offers a model of civic transformation forged in the wake
of violence and repression. She responds to a pressing
contradiction in the world at large, where youth political
participation has become a means of commodifying digital culture
amid the ongoing disenfranchisement of youth globally. Brough
focuses on how young people's civic participation online and in the
streets in Medellin was central to the city's transformation from
having the world's highest homicide rates in the early 1990s to
being known for its urban renaissance by the 2010s. Seeking to
distinguish commercialized digital interactions from genuine
political participation, Brough uses Medellin's experiences with
youth participation-ranging from digital citizenship initiatives to
the voices of community media to the beats of hip-hop culture-to
show how young people can be at the forefront of fostering
ecologies of artistic and grassroots engagement in order to reshape
civic life.
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