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Youth active citizenship in Europe : ethnographies of participation /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Banaji, Shakuntala, 1971-, Mejias, Sam
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Subjects:
Youth > Political activity > European Union countries.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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