Intersectional politicization: A facet of youth activists' sociopolitical development

Conner, Jerusha; Lotesta, Johnnie; Stannard, Rachel

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“…Research has also been somewhat limited to the merits of preventing youth involvement, to avoid potential harm. However, the benefits of their engagement is clear and include increased critical consciousness (Conner et al ., 2023), youth feeling validated and important (Young et al ., 2023) and increased youth engagement in a variety of settings, including civic engagement and volunteering (Crocetti et al ., 2014). The quality of current engagement in a range of activities may also be enhanced (Martínez et al ., 2017).…”

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Understanding youth empowerment: a youth participatory action research approach

Williams

2024

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PurposeThe aim of this study is two-fold: (1) to promote a model of youth participatory research and offer a window of understanding into how it can be enacted and (2) to understand youth perspectives on youth empowerment. This study asks: “how can youth help us understand youth empowerment?”Design/methodology/approachThe study applies youth participatory action research (YPAR) and interpretative phenomenological analysis. The study illustrates how to enact a model of YPAR by engaging youth in the process of research in a youth-serving community non-profit organization.FindingsThis study sets out to make two important contributions, one methodological and one theoretical: First, the study contributes to our understanding of the opportunities and benefits of youth-engaged, peer-to-peer research. Specifically, this study promotes a model of youth participatory action research and knowledge making processes, and the associated social and formal benefits for youth. By extension, this study illustrates an approach to engage youth in formal contexts which has implications for both management and organizational studies and education. Finally, the study extends our understanding and conceptualization of the phenomenon of youth empowerment (as informed by youth perspectives).Originality/valueThe study offers insight into how to conduct youth participatory action research and specifically how to address two limitations cited in the literature: (1) how to authentically engage youth including how to share power, and (2) how to perform youth participatory action research, often critiqued as a black box methodology.

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Understanding youth empowerment: a youth participatory action research approach

Williams

2024

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“…Increasingly, contemporary youth activists work on multiple causes (Chapter 7), which they see as inextricably bound. While we can still speak of specific issue area activists (e.g., racial justice activists; reproductive rights activists; pro-democracy activists), the siloing of causes has become outmoded, and intersectional youth organizing and activism are on the rise (e.g., Becker, 2023;Conner et al, 2023c;Terriquez and Milkman, 2021). Climate justice activists, for example, attend not just to climate change, but to its connection to immigrant and refugees' rights, indigenous peoples' rights, economic (green) justice, women's rights, access to healthcare, racism, and LGBTQ rights.…”

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Introduction: youth activism in a context of global uncertainty and biographical precarity

Conner,

Elegon,

Cohen

2024

Handbook on Youth Activism

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When two young members of the Just Stop Oil coalition, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, threw tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh's Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers painting in the London National Gallery in October 2022 to draw attention to the need to end fossil fuel dependence, they ignited a firestorm. 1 Critics on the left and right impugned their tactic as performative, immature, and counterproductive. But creating controversy was the point. As Plummer explained on social media, "What we're doing is getting the conversation going so we can ask the questions that matter" (Free Seed Films, 2022). The question Plummer and Holland hoped to inject into public consciousness was why people do not feel the same levels of horror and outrage when witnessing the destruction of the planet and its people as when seeing a beautiful work of art defaced (Quiroz, 2022).Whether through dramatic direct actions, individual acts of resistance, community organizing, power-building, and/or mass protests in the streets, youth activists are sparking important conversations about what is right and what must change in their institutions, nation-states, and the world in order to secure a just and viable future for themselves and others. These conversations are not simply academic. How they are taken up, debated, and ultimately decided is highly consequential, and no one has a greater stake in them than young people, who have many more years left to live than their adult counterparts. Remembering this timeframe is one key to understanding what drives so many young people to take action to try to effect change in what they feel is an untenable status quo. As Phoebe Plummer told a reporter, "I'm doing this so that one day I can look at my niece or nephew in the eye and say, 'I fought for your future'" (Quiroz, 2022).As we write this introduction, the future feels less assured and more precarious for many young people -especially those from more marginalized backgrounds -around the world. They are growing up in an era marked by ever more frequent and more extreme climate shocks and more catastrophic climate changes; a global pandemic that has decreased global life expectancy, served as a mass disabling event, upended schooling, and sent shockwaves through the global economy; a major land war in Europe, a civil war in Sudan, and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan; widening inequality; an increase in hate crimes directed against minoritized populations as well as police or state-sanctioned violence; and a dramatic rise in authoritarianism around the world (Rhodes, 2022). While the threats are more imminent and graver for some young people than others, the majority of youth activists today seem to be grappling with existential questions. Will the planet be inhabitable when I'm an adult? How can I live in a society that invalidates my identity or strips me of basic rights to bodily autonomy? If I speak up, will I be beaten, disappeared, or killed?For many years, a common paradigm used to explain youth activism has been biographical availability...

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Healing justice in multicultural counseling

Salazar,

Hunter,

Kirshner

et al. 2024

J Multicult Couns & Deve

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Prioritizing healing for Latinx youth involves more than increased access to mental health resources. Community‐based educators are articulating a vision of healing justice that combines psychological healing and social change. In this paper, we draw on 2 years of collaborative community‐engaged co‐design with youth and young adults of color to propose a framework for healing justice in youth development and education spaces. We discuss the relevance of this healing justice paradigm for approaches to counseling Latinx youth.

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Intersectional politicization: A facet of youth activists' sociopolitical development

Cited by 6 publications

References 64 publications

Understanding youth empowerment: a youth participatory action research approach

Understanding youth empowerment: a youth participatory action research approach

Introduction: youth activism in a context of global uncertainty and biographical precarity

Healing justice in multicultural counseling

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