Recruiting Inclusiveness: Intersectionality, Social Movements, and Youth Online

Elliott, Thomas; Earl, Jennifer; Maher, Thomas V.

doi:10.1108/s0163-786x20170000041019

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“…This deficit model of youth political engagement creates barriers for youth engagement by assuming that youth are not interested in politics, and denying youth agency in their own political socialization. Counterintuitively, though, much of that adult‐to‐youth socialization also treats youth as akin to little adults who lack distinct political interests and concerns from adults (Elliot, Earl, & Maher, ). Recent research on political socialization challenges this deficit model: Youth are not politicized by others; political socialization is something that they do for themselves (Yates & Youniss, ).…”

Section: Political Socializationmentioning

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“…Youth of color may also face additional barriers to participation within activist organizations. Scholarship has found that few organizations engage in intersectional mobilization and recruitment strategies (Elliott, Earl, & Maher, ; Strolovitch, ), leading to a lack of opportunities targeted explicitly to people of color. Youth of color are likely to experience a double penalty in this regard, both for their age and for their racial and ethnic identities.…”

Section: Intersectionality and Youth Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Youth, activism, and social movements

2017

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There has been considerable debate over the extent and role of young people's political participation. Whether considering popular hand-wringing over concerns about declines in young people's institutional political participation or dismissals of young people's use of online activism, many frame youth engagement through a "youth deficit" model that assumes that adults need to politically socialize young people. However, others argue that young people are politically active and actively involved in their own political socialization, which is evident when examining youth participation in protest, participatory politics, and other forms of noninstitutionalized political participation. Moreover, social movement scholars have long documented the importance of youth to major social movements.In this article, we bring far flung literatures about youth activism together to review work on campus activism; young people's political socialization, their involvement in social movement organizations, their choice of tactics; and the context in which youth activism takes place. This context includes the growth of movement societies, the rise of fan activism, and pervasive Internet use. We argue that social movement scholars have already created important concepts (e.g., biographical availability) and questions (e.g., biographical consequences of activism) from studying young people and urge additional future research.

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Section: Political Socializationmentioning

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Section: Intersectionality and Youth Activismmentioning

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Youth, activism, and social movements

2017

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“…Such arguments stem from the fears of older generation of what young women could possible experience if not instructed correctly (Egan, 2013;Smith, 2010;Ringrose, 2016). The general interest of one homogenised group called "young women" is also problematic as it does not take into account specific intersectional identities which could exclude a variety of "young women" and their wide variety of interests (Elliot et al, 2017). Newspapers therefore usually fails to consider what Elliot et al call "identity bridging" (ibid), and instead they build upon arguments which mobilize medical or political "experts" talking for younger women.…”

Section: Young Women and The Public Spherementioning

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Not Seen and Not Heard? The Representation of Young Women and Their Political Interests in the Traditional Print Public Sphere

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Holecz

2019

American Behavioral Scientist

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A number of marginalized groups, including women and young people face multiple disadvantages in the traditional print media public sphere. As an inherently political space, young women’s position within the public sphere has implications for their wider role in politics and society. However, few studies analyze this specific intersection of youth and gender empirically. Using recent original data, this article analyzes how young women and their interests are represented in the traditional media public sphere. It uses the lens of political claims analysis, a method that collects data on strategic interventions that express a political opinion either verbal or nonverbal, by collective actors in the public sphere, in addition to the thematic content analysis of the coded claims. This is an exploratory analysis of original political claims data and news content gathered from a range of newspapers across nine European countries from the period 2010 to 2016. It finds that the main qualities of representation confirm patterns within existing literature, with a centrality of young women’s bodies within our sample, and a low level of agency or “active” role for young women within claims relating to their own interest. Furthermore, we empirically confirm trends which offer examples of more progressive representations of young women and their interests, including the significance of civil society actors in promoting the rights of young women and the theme of gender (in)equality in professional life, which enables space for a greater level of agency for young women than most other debates.

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