Full Description
Reshaping Youth Participation reframes discussions around youth political, social, civic, and cultural participation. Drawing upon insights on democracy and citizenship, self-organising and protest movements, and arts activism as engaged social activism, the chapters consider the youth participation spaces in which young people find voice and action-spaces that are part of existing forms of participation, and newly emergent spaces that challenge existing systems.
Set in Manchester, Reshaping Youth Participation contextualises youth participation in a major UK city known for its activism and regional devolution, alongside studies from partner European cities.
Exploring the participation of young people in 'adult spaces', of young people who are pursuing a new politics and ideological change, of marginalised young people, and of young people utilising the creative arts as a 'lived politics', the authors argue that youth participation provides a vital addition to sustaining and developing political, social, and democratic life in cities.
Celebrating youth participation and its myriad forms, triumphs, and challenges, this edited collection provides much needed innovative thinking to the study of youth participation. It is an important contribution for young people themselves, academics, policymakers, local policy experts and makers, local activists, and community advocates.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to 'Manchester in a European Gaze'; Harriet Rowley, Janet Batsleer, and Gráinne McMahon
SECTION 1. (NON)FORMAL SPACES FOR REPRESENTATION AND DEMOCRACY
Chapter 2. Democrat and/or Parasite: Beyond the Tokenism Debate in the Emergence of the Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (A Manchester Case); Stuart Dunne and James Duggan
Chapter 3. Moving Out of Formal Structures: Young People as Independent Action Researchers (A Manchester Case); Hasaan Amin, Vanessa Attipoe, Hassan Dantata, Daniel Rimes, Barry Percy-Smith, and Nigel Patrick Thomas
Chapter 4. Youth Councils in Other Contexts (A European Commentary); Björn Andersson
SECTION 2. SELF-ORGANISING, PROTEST AND ACTIVIST MOVEMENTS
Chapter 5. Be(com)ing Feminist and Creating a 'Politics of a Difference' (A Manchester Case); Gráinne McMahon
Chapter 6. Being a Socialist in Manchester (A Manchester Case); Alexandre Pais
Chapter 7. Counter-Hegemonic Politics between Coping and Performative Self-contradictions (A European Commentary); Jessica Lütgens and Yağmur Mengilli
SECTION 3. PRECARITY, FRAGILITY, RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE
Chapter 8. 'Faceless': Young People Seeking Asylum and Safety (A Manchester case); Gráinne McMahon and Rhetta Moran
Chapter 9. Who was Lost and Who was Found? (A Manchester case); Harriet Rowley and Chris Charles
Chapter 10. Fragilities: Participation as Resilience (A European Commentary); Ilaria Pitti
SECTION 4. CREATIVITY, PERFORMANCE, IMPROVISATION AND DEMOCRACY
Chapter 11. Creativity and Enterprise: The Agency (A Manchester Case); Steve Vickers and Janet Batsleer
Chapter 12. Pulling a Politics Out of the Hat at 'The Noise Upstairs' (A Manchester Case); Geoff Bright and Anton Hunter
Chapter 13. Opening Up Space for Participation: Street Music and Politics (A European Commentary); Berrin Osmanoğlu, Demet Lüküslü, and Cemre Zekiroğlu
Chapter 14. Necessity and Dilemmas of a Wide Notion of Youth Participation: European Perspectives; Axel Pohl and Andreas Walther
Chapter 15. (not a) Conclusion; Gráinne McMahon, Harriet Rowley, and Janet Batsleer, with Elaine Morrison
