Youth, Transitions and Social Justice

Nathan Manning is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is particularly interested in examining how citizens understand their relationship to politics and the role that emotions and feelings may play in people’s experience of ‘the political’. Brian McShane is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University. Michael Whelan is Senior Lecturer in Education and Early Childhood at the University of the West of England.

• Introduction - Brian McShane and Michael Whelan Part I: Contemporary Youth Transitions in Space and Place1. Issues of Class, Space and Haunting in Young People’s Experiences and Perceptions of Social (In)Justice in Scotland - Charlotte McPherson2. Youth and Conservation in the Greater Kruger National Park Landscape - Samantha S. Sithole, Gretchen M. Walters, Frank Matose and Lambert Simango3. Education Pioneers in Indonesia and Kenya: Refugee Youth Inhabiting Educational Spaces in Sites of Transit and Encampment - Michelle J. Bellino and Realisa D. Masardi4. Young Women’s Right to the City: Collective Action Within Skateboarding and Surfing Communities - Letícia O. Galvão5. Young People Who Take Drugs, Queering ‘The Rave’, and Intersectional Social (In)justices - Karenza Moore and Zafi Moore6. ‘Safe’ Masculinities: The Performance of Young Masculinities in Public Space - Brian McShane and Michael Whelan Part II: Activism, Practice and Social Justice 7. Participatory Futures? A Model to Engage Young People as Co-researchers and Shape Local Health Policy - Nathan Manning, Brian D. Loader and Amanda Mason-Jones8. Reappropriation of Public Space as Social Justice: Youth and Batucada - Elvira Molina-Fernández, Jose-Luis Parejo and Elisabet Moles-López9. ‘Connect, Challenge and Change’: Using Digital in Nonformal Education to Combat the Double-Helix of Exclusion - Paul Adams and James Dellow10. An Exploration of the Issues Faced by Young People from Racially Minoritized Communities During Their Education That Have Implications for Their Progression to Higher Education - Kane Allen, Karan Vickers-Hulse and Sarah Whitehouse11. Social Justice in Youth Work: A Dialogue Between Sustainable Development Goals and the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Trudi Cooper, Harry Shier, Tim Corney, Hilary Tierney and Jamie GormanConclusion: Towards Social Justice - Brian McShane and Michael Whelan