Is There A Youth Politics?

What is the nature of 'youth politics', if any? This article proposes an analytical lens which may help us consider ‘youth’ as a useful category, and 'youth politics' in terms of the conflicts and negotiations over claiming or defending youthfulness. Understood in this fashion, y...

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Publicado en:Middle East - Topics & Arguments
Autor principal: Bayat, Asef
Formato: Artikel (Zeitschrift)
Lenguaje:inglés

Publicado: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2017
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Sumario:What is the nature of 'youth politics', if any? This article proposes an analytical lens which may help us consider ‘youth’ as a useful category, and 'youth politics' in terms of the conflicts and negotiations over claiming or defending youthfulness. Understood in this fashion, youth politics is mediated by the position of the young in class, gender, racial, sexual and other involved social structures. It concludes that the political outlook of a young person may be shaped not just by the exclusive preoccupation with 'youthfulness', but also by his/her position in society as citizen, poor, female, or a member of a sexual minority.
DOI:10.17192/meta.2017.9.7219