Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction

Lam‐Knott, Sonia; Cheng, Yi’En

doi:10.1080/13562576.2020.1732200

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“…However, generational differences also persist in research (Norris and Inglehart, 2019;van der Brug and Rekker, 2021). Generational analysis of participation in recent global movements includes feminist, civil rights, peace movements, and social and economic justice struggles like Occupy, or Black Lives Matter (Honwana, 2019;Lam-Knott and Cheng, 2020). There is renewed interest in understanding whether the experience of being socialized politically during a time of "successive and overlapping crises" (pandemics, rising economic in equality, and environmental crises for example) is impacting the values of new generations of youth and how they participate in, and view, politics (Pickard and Bessant, 2017;Pickard et al, 2020).…”

Section: Background Youth Activism and Climate Change In Cross-cultural Contextsmentioning

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Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

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This article examines youth participation the school climate strikes of 2018 and 2019 (also known as #Fridays4Future), through an exploratory study conducted in seven diverse cities. Despite the international nature of the climate strikes, we know little about the factors that influenced youth participation in these protests beyond the global North. This matters because youth of the global South are disproportionately impacted by climate change and there is growing concern that the climate movement is dominated by narratives that marginalize the voices and priorities of Indigenous communities and people of color. In this context, the exploratory research reported here aimed to compare the attitudes of climate protesters (n = 314) and their non-protester peers (n = 1,217), in diverse city samples drawn from a wider study of children and youth aged 12–24 years, living in Christchurch (New Zealand); Dhaka (Bangladesh); Lambeth, London (United Kingdom); Makhanda (South Africa); New Delhi (India); São Paulo (Brazil); and Yokohama (Japan). Using cross-sectional data (N = 1,531) and binary logistic regression models, researchers examined three common explanations for youth participation in protest: availability (biographical and structural), political engagement (reported individual and collective efficacy of strikers and non-strikers), and self-reported biospheric values amongst participants. Results indicate that even in diverse city samples, structural availability (civic skills and organizational membership) predicted strike participation across city samples, but not political engagement (self-efficacy and collective efficacy). Youth who reported that ‘living in harmony with nature and animals’ was important for their wellbeing, were also more likely to strike than their peers. Descriptive statistics indicated that the majority (85 percent) of all protestors in this study agreed climate change was a serious issue and a startling 65 percent said that they think about climate change “all the time”. Reported rates of youth climate protest participation varied across city samples as did the extent to which participants reported having friends take part or expecting climate change to have a personal impact. While the study is exploratory, it points to the need for more extensive research to understand the diversity of youth participation in ‘global climate strikes’.

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Section: Background Youth Activism and Climate Change In Cross-cultural Contextsmentioning

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Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

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“…Ps. Space and Polity is publishing a special issue on 'Youth Politics in Urban Asia' in the present volume (Lam-Knott & Cheng, 2020). Following the special issues edited by Philo and Smith (2003) and Kallio and Häkli (2013), this places the journal unquestionably as the leading publication in the field of political geographies of childhood and youth.…”

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Kallio

2020

Space and Polity

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“…En los movimientos sociales, las investigaciones recientes respecto del papel de las cohortes más jóvenes en la protesta han mostrado cómo las nuevas generaciones traen a los movimientos sociales y, a la política en general, identidades e intereses propios (Earl et al, 2017;Vommaro, 2014;Weiss, 2020). Los estudios señalan que las transformaciones promovidas por las juventudes se observan en los movimientos feministas (Molyneux et al, 2020), en el movimiento pacifista, en los reclamos por el cambio climático (Prendergast et al, 2021) y en las protestas por los derechos civiles (Honwana, 2019), así como en los movimientos por la justicia económica y social (Rossi, 2009;Lam-Knott & Cheng, 2020). Un concepto fundamental que explica el poder transformador de la juventud es la noción de unidad generacional.…”

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“El viento arrollador”: la irrupción de las jóvenes en la protesta del Ni Una Menos de Argentina

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2023

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En 2015, el activismo feminista de Argentina alcanzó una escala sin precedentes con la marcha Ni Una Menos. Tomando esta protesta como terreno empírico, en este artículo se indaga en los factores que explican por qué las mujeres jóvenes se unen a los movimientos feministas. En particular, por qué se volcaron a las calles para protestar y denunciar los feminicidios y la violencia de género. Mediante entrevistas a jóvenes, a organizadoras de la marcha y a activistas feministas de larga trayectoria, se muestra cómo una convocatoria novedosa en términos prefigurativos y performativos, más la trama organizativa feminista preexistente, fueron condiciones que canalizaron una sensibilidad joven a la protesta callejera. El trabajo destaca las unidades generacionales, la disponibilidad estructural de la juventud y la política expresiva de los movimientos como condiciones para la protesta feminista juvenil.

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Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction

Cited by 7 publications

References 39 publications

Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

Lessons in the art of scientific editing

“El viento arrollador”: la irrupción de las jóvenes en la protesta del Ni Una Menos de Argentina

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