Dynamics of Youth Agency in Times of Crisis

Nadine Sika is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the American University in Cairo. She is author of Youth Activism and Contentious Politics in Egypt: Dynamics of Continuity and Change (2017). She is Book Reviews Editor of Mediterranean Politics and Associate Editor of Democratization.

• Introduction: Beyond the Impasse? Dynamics of youth agency in times of crisis 1. Looking South: What can Youth Studies in the Global North learn from research on youth and policy in the Middle East and North African countries? 2. Working class youth transitions as a litmus test for change: labour crisis and social conflict in Arab Mediterranean countries 3. Youth socio-economic and political grievances: Bringing the ‘Political’ back into understanding contestation in the MENA 4. Rethinking justice beyond human rights. Anti-colonialism and intersectionality in the politics of the Palestinian Youth Movement 5. Using the clustering method for a heterogeneous reading of Lebanese youth Conclusion: Euro-Mediterranean partnership and youth policies in the MENA: why policy discourse travels but implementation doesn’t