ABSTRACT
Young People in the Global South: Voice, Agency and Citizenship explores the spatial, relational, affective and material dimensions of adolescents’ and young people’s civic engagement and political participation in lower- and middle-income contexts. This textbook questions how the ‘everyday politics’ of exercising voice and agency is experienced at different scales, from the interpersonal to the global.
It explores how structural inequalities and marginalisation, as well as social norms and attitudes, shape how voice, agency and participation are expressed by diverse young people in particular contexts with unique histories. Contributing authors focus on the experiences of young people who are marginalised based on age, gender, sexuality, disability, citizenship status and geographical location. Together they show how ageing through adolescence enables or constrains agency and voice. Textbook features include case studies on Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, as well as reflective accounts authored by adolescents and young people themselves, and discussion questions.
Filling a key gap in the knowledge about the concerns and experiences of young people in contexts beyond the Global North, this textbook will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in the fields of childhood and youth studies, international development, social movements, human geography, sociology and comparative politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|26 pages
Introduction
part Section I|92 pages
Research methods to explore young people's voice, agency and civic engagement
chapter Chapter 2|16 pages
Section overview
chapter Chapter 3|14 pages
Measuring adolescent voice and agency
chapter Chapter 4|19 pages
Empowerment in the age of Covid-19
chapter Chapter 5|12 pages
Giving voice to children and adolescents in Chile
chapter Chapter 6|14 pages
Youth contribution
chapter Chapter 7|4 pages
Youth contribution
chapter Chapter 8|6 pages
Youth contribution
part Section II|75 pages
Listening to young people: Negotiating gendered perspectives on voice and agency
chapter Chapter 10|20 pages
Section overview
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Exercising agency on the periphery
chapter Chapter 12|12 pages
‘Children have the right to be controlled by their parents’
chapter Chapter 13|12 pages
Exploring the lived realities of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth in Bangladesh
chapter Chapter 14|4 pages
Youth contribution
chapter Chapter 15|6 pages
Youth contribution
chapter Chapter 16|4 pages
Youth contribution
chapter Chapter 17|4 pages
Chapter Youth contribution
part Section III|64 pages
Understanding young people's citizenship: Marginalisation, agency and the political imagination
chapter Chapter 18|16 pages
Section overview
chapter Chapter 19|12 pages
Street youth as human billboards – a paradox of performed street citizenship
chapter Chapter 20|12 pages
Informality, gender, and alternative citizenship
chapter Chapter 21|14 pages
Youth movements and political protest
chapter Chapter 22|4 pages
Youth contribution
part Section IV|56 pages
Understanding young people's citizenship: Marginalisation, agency and the political imagination
chapter Chapter 24|14 pages
Section overview
chapter Chapter 25|12 pages
Patterning, enablers and barriers to adolescents' participation in protracted crises
chapter Chapter 27|6 pages
Youth contribution
chapter Chapter 28|4 pages
Youth contribution
chapter Chapter 29|4 pages
Youth contribution
part Section V|76 pages
Policies and programming for voice, agency and civic participation