Handbook on Youth Activism

Edited by Jerusha Conner, Professor of Education, Department of Education and Counseling, Villanova University, US

• Contents:Introduction: youth activism in a context of global uncertainty and biographicalprecarity xixJerusha Conner, Uyiosa Elegon and Alison K. CohenPART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM1 The political participation of young people in times of crisis:a framework for analysis 2Daniela Chironi, Donatella della Porta and Chiara Milan2 Developmental foundations of environmental activism 16Alisa A. Pykett, Erin Gallay and Constance Flanagan3 The disruptive power of recognition and young environmental activists 31Judith Bessant and Sarah Pickard4 Using a human rights lens: learning from children’s activism 46E. Kay M. Tisdall and Patricio Cuevas-ParraPART II YOUTH ACTIVISM IN SPECIFIC GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTS5 Youth activism in Ukraine before and during the Russia–Ukraine war 61Olena Nikolayenko6 Why and how South Asian youth are involved in politics: a systematicreview of literature 75Yog Raj Lamichhane and Bharat Raj Dhakal7 Charting youth activism in Chile: contemporary areas and trends 91Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Lucía Miranda Leibe, Rodrigo Torres, Nicolás Ortizand Nicolás AngelcosPART III METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE STUDY OFYOUTH ACTIVISM8 Methods for a multimodal, collaborative, and engaged researchpractice: mapping youth activism and cultural production across time and space 107Maurice Rafael Magaña, Anthony Gerard Wright and Jurhamuti JoséVelázquez Morales9 By us, for us: a women of color student activist photo-narrative exhibitfor sociopolitical wellbeing 123Jesica Siham Fernández and Danielle N. Aguilar10 Visual politicization and youth challenges to an unequal public sphere:conceptual and methodological perspectives 140Eeva Luhtakallio, Taina Meriluoto and Carla Malafaia11 Ambivalent narratives of the political self: notes on the coproduction ofaudio-visual stories in Cape Town and Luanda 154Chloé BuirePART IV THE NATURE OF YOUTH ACTIVISTS’ LABOR12 Keeping the store in order: an ethnography of youth activism’s everyday work 169Ilaria Pitti13 Coming out in solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket of the South AfricanEmbassy as a space of support and experimentation for queer youth 183Gavin Brown14 Racism and youth climate activism: what can we learn from racismallegations about the image exclusions of black women activists? 196Brendon Barnes15 Enabling conditions and challenges of youth sexual and reproductiverights activism in Indonesia 210Rinaldi Ridwan and Putri Widi Saraswati16 An ideal activist in a privileged society: studying the internalnegotiations and practices of being a young Danish activist 226Maria Bruselius-JensenPART V EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON YOUTH17 Reframing school engagement: relationships to school among youthorganizing participants working for educational justice 241Sara McAlister18 Movements forward: finding healing through activism 257Marlene Palomar, Abraham Jones and Ben Kirshner19 Black youth, digital activism, and racial battle fatigue: how Black youthenact hope, humor, and healing online 272Tiera Tanksley and Alexis E. Hunter20 Political context and Russian youth: the political socialization of youngactivists under authoritarianism 289Svetlana ErpylevaPART VI EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON THEIRINSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY21 “These are my greatest accomplishments”: how US youth activistsframe their biggest wins 304Oladimeji Fatoki, Amanda Galczyk, Christopher M. Wegemer, LauraWray-Lake and Jerusha Conner22 “Real change takes time”: building multi-dimensional youth communitypower in a participatory design collective 319Kathryn Y. Morgan, Kayla Anderson, Joseph KaiKai, Lema Shaltaf and BrianD. Christens23 On and off: representations and omissions of youth activism in politicalcampaign ads (Brazil and Argentina, 1980s and 2010s) 336Dolores Rocca Rivarola24 #WeAreRemovingADictator: the 2021 Uganda election crisis, thepossibilities and limits of youth digital activism 351M. Ainomugisha and Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire25 The White Ribbon movement and its achievement in uprooting theconservative Thai state 365Kanokrat Lertchoosakul

‘This Handbook provides a remarkable compendium of the essential work young people are doing to demand change at the local, national, and transnational levels. Although warned by the editors not to romanticize youth activists, it is impossible to walk away from this book without a deep sense of hope for the future.’