Childhood, youth and activism : demands for rights and justice from young people and their advocates

• Other Authors: Wright, Katie (Editor), McLeod, Julie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
• Series: Sociological studies of children and youth ; v. 33.
• Subjects: Children's rights.; Youth > Civil rights.; Activism.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781801174701
• DOI: 10.1108/S1537-4661202333
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 pages).

In a time of ongoing global instability and the emergence of new fault lines of social inequality generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rights of children and young people have been thrown into sharp relief. From uncertain futures arising from the climate crisis to concerns about regressive and re...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Activism, rights and hope: Young people and their advocates mobilising for social change / Katie Wright and Julie Mcleod-- Chapter 2. Discovering Children's Voices: Debating Children's Rights and Participation in the International Year of the Child (1979) / Isobelle Barrett Meyering-- Chapter 3. Adults Claiming Child Rights: Activism, Temporality and Abuse in Childhood / Katie Wright, Malin Arvidsson, Johanna Sköld, Shurlee Swain, and Sari Braithwaite-- Chapter 4. 'When we can't vote, action is all we have': Student Climate Politics, Rights and Justice / Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, and Rob Watts-- Chapter 5. Appearing as Impossible Subjects on the Scene of Education: Potato Smashing, Laying on Couch and Asking for a Key / Maija Lanas, Maria Petäjäniemi, Anne-Mari Väisänen, Kaisu Alamikkelä, Iida Kauhanen, and Kirsi Yliniva-- Chapter 6. "Pipe down silly girl": The Silencing, Vilification and Discrediting of Girl Activists / Lindy Cameron-- Chapter 7. Young People's Climate Activism and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand / Jenny Ritchie-- Chapter 8. Young People's Activism in Rural Communities: A Mixed-Methods Case Study With Young People From a Rural Municipality in Germany / Janina Suppers-- Chapter 9. Red vs. Blue, Black vs. White, and Other State Factors in the 2018 Parkland School Shooting Protests in the US / Roberto S. Salva-- Chapter 10. Citizenship Educators' Vision of Young People's Activism in Asian Society: A Qualitative Case Study of Secondary School Teachers in Japan / Chika Hosoda-- Chapter 11. Adults as Advocates: How Sexual Abuse Was Put on the Child Rights Map in India / Therese Boje Mortensen-- Chapter 12. The Kids are Alt-Right (and Progressive, Conservative, Radical, etc): Selective Advocacy in Childhood and Youth Studies / Catherine Hartung.