Full Description
Young people are often at the forefront of democratic activism, whether self-organised or supported by youth workers and community development professionals. Focusing on youth activism for greater equality, liberty and mutual care - radical democracy - this timely collection explores the movement's impacts on community organisations and workers. Essays from the Global North and Global South cover the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental activism and the struggles of refugees.
At a time of huge global challenges, youth participation is a dynamic lens through which all community development scholars and participants can rethink their approaches.
Contents
PART I Young people: radical democracy and community development
Introduction: Young people, radical democracy and community development - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküslü
Thinking/acting with migrants under neoliberalism: "It's horrible to perceive solidarity as merely absorbing the sorrow of one side". - Cihan Erdal
PART II Young people acting together for eco-justice
Imagining the future under capitalism: young people involved in environmental activism in an economic crisis - Dena Arya
Community building for and through sustainable food - Dominic Zimmermann
Daring, dissolving and dancing: making communities with water - Róisín O'Gorman
PART III Acts of citizenship?
Community development, empowerment and youth participation in social-housing neighbourhoods in France - Gülçin Erdi
LGBTQ+ young peoples' sexuality and gender citizenship in digital spaces - Sally Carr and Ali Hanbury
Enabling spaces for and with marginalised young people: the case of the Disha peer support and speak out group - Sadhana Natu
Meaningful youth engagement in community programming in Kenya - Yvonne Akinyi Ochieng, Su Lyn Corcoran and Kate Pahl
PART IV Black lives still matter
Conceptualising community development through a pedagogy of convivência: youth, race and territory in Brazil - Fernando Lannes Fernandes and Andrea Rodriguez
"I did not want the project to end. For me, it should last forever": exploring a community development framework based on learned lessons from marginalised youth voices in Brazil - Andrea Rodriguez and Fernando Lannes Fernandes
Burning work: field map - Christxpher Oliver
PART V Practising hope
They are not your warriors: intergenerational tensions and practices of hope in young people's environmental activism - Dena Arya
Afterword: Community as prefigurative practice - practices of hope - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküsl ü
