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Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th-21st Centuries by Richard and Margaret Braungart is a collection of 19 of their previously published research articles on youthful political activism, generational conflict and social change. After assessing 1960s' student groups on the political left, right and center, generations of youth movement activity are identified in each world region—from the first student movement in Germany in 1815 to the global surge in youth unrest and demonstrations in the 21st century. Representing more than 50 years of research, youth movements and generational politics are explored from historical, generational and global perspectives. As a collection, these articles are theoretically grounded, empirically based, interdisciplinary and comparative. Exploring youth movements at individual, group, societal and international levels, a variety of methodological approaches for studying youth activism are illustrated. In a concluding chapter, the Braungarts update youth movement activity in the 21st century and discuss how their previous decades of international research informs the global rise in youthful mobilization over politics. The trends and changes in youth unrest and generational politics are assessed now and into the future.
Contents
List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; PART 1: YOUTH MOVEMENTS AND YOUTH POLITICS, 1 Youth and Social Movements; 2 Moderate-Extreme and Left-Right Sources of Youth Politics: A Typology; 3 Moral Development and Youth Activism; 4 Activists and the History of the Future; 5 Reference Group, Social Judgment, and Student Politics; 6 From Protest to Terrorism: The Case of SDS and the Weathermen; 7 Youth Movements in the 1980s: A Global Perspective; 8 Youth Problems and Politics in the 1980s: Some Multinational Comparisons; PART 2: HISTORICAL GENERATIONS AND POLITICAL GENERATIONS, 9 Historical Generations and Youth Movements: A Theoretical Perspective; 10 Historical Generations and Generation Units: A Global Pattern of Youth Movements; 11 Historical Generations and Citizenship: 200 Years of Youth Movements; 12 Political Generations; 13 Political Generational Themes in the American Student Movements of the 1930s and 1960s; 14 European Youth Movements in the 1980s: A Political Generational Perspective; 15 Generational Conflict and Intergroup Relations as the Foundation for Political Generations; PART 3: LIFE-COURSE POLITICS, 16 Aging and Politics; 17 Why Youth in Youth Movements?; 18 The Life-Course Development of Left-and Right-Wing Youth Activist Leaders from the 1960s; 19 Conceptional and Methodological Approaches to Studying Life Course and Generational Politics; Conclusion; Index
