Full Description
This book increases the awareness of youth political agency and how it relates to adults, governments, communities, and local and global discourse. It reveals the complexity of youth's political lives as it intersects with social identifiers such as location, gender, and political status, and interacts with neoliberal discourse embedded in media, local politics, education, and religious idioms. This book fills a gap in existing research to provide a body of literature on the political socialization and its manifestation in youth political agency. The research findings aid in understanding the abilities of youth to reason, reflect upon, articulate, and act upon their political views. This research is not only pertinent to children in Palestine, but can also be applied to children living everywhere as global discourse of oppression is not limited to a location, age or a group.
Contents
Part I1. Introduction to Palestinian youth journaling project 2. Reconceptualizing youth political socialization: a theoretical framework3. Community contribution to political socialization: the global is local4. Social Identifiers: making meaning of intersectionality 5. Geopolitics of religion and its role in youth agency6. Limitations of the educational structure in political socialization7. Media and the neoliberal agenda within political socializationPart II: The outcome of political socialization8. The evolvement of national identity: A never-ending process9. Youth agency/activism: The hidden outcome 10. The normalization of youth political agency
