Young People in the Global South (eBook, ePUB)

Voice, Agency and Citizenship
Redaktion: Pincock, Kate; Gumbonzvanda, Nyaradzayi; Blerk, Lorraine van; Jones, Nicola

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the spatial, relational, affective, and material dimensions of young people's civic engagement and political participation in lower/middle-income contexts and will interest academics, students and practitioners of youth studies, international development, social movements, human geography and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003834342
• Artikelnr.: 69570189

Autorenporträt

Kate Pincock is a Researcher on the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme at ODI and a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Her research interests include critical theories of agency; age, gender and sexualities; participatory methodologies; and postcolonial work on displacement, borders and mobility. She is the author of The Global Governed (2020) and co-editor of Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Gender, Displacement and Social Inequalities (2021). Nicola Jones is a Principal Research Fellow at ODI and Director of GAGE, the largest longitudinal research study in the Global South (2016-2016), following 20,000 adolescent girls and boys across the second decade of life. Her research focuses on gender, adolescence and childhood, social protection and gender norm change in developmental and conflict-affected contexts in sub-Saharan Africa, East and South Asia, and the Middle East. Nicola has published widely including two recent co-edited volumes with Routledge: Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Gender, Displacement and Social Inequalities (2021) and Adolescent Girls and Empowerment: Towards Gender Justice (2018). Lorraine van Blerk, FAcSS, is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Dundee, UK, and an Honorary Professor at the Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research focuses on childhood and youth, with a particular focus on participatory and co-produced research. Her research has examined issues of homelessness, refugee status and other aspects of marginalisation and exclusion for young people in urban and rural settings, most notably across Africa. She is co-editor/author of four books and has written in excess of 100 academic and policy-related publications. Lorraine co-led the Growing Up On The Streets longitudinal and qualitative research programme and leads subsequent affiliated projects. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda is the Founder and Chief Executive of the Rozaria Memorial Trust and former World YWCA General Secretary. She is a trained human rights lawyer with extensive experience in conflict resolution and mediation. She is also the current chair of CIVICUS and serves on the Advisory Committee for Girls Not Brides. She was appointed a member of the High Level Group on HIV Prevention and Sexual Health for Young People in Eastern and Southern Africa by the United Nations, following her service as a member of the UN Commission on Information and Accountability on Women and Children's Health. In May 2014 she was named Goodwill Ambassador of the African Union Campaign to End Child Marriage.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I Research methods to explore young people's voice, agency and
civic engagement; Introduction: Adolescent and young people's voice, agency
and citizenship in the Global South; Section overview: Research methods to
explore young people's voice, agency and civic engagement; Measuring
adolescent voice and agency: An overview of quantitative and mixed-methods
approaches; Empowerment in the age of Covid-19: A mixed-methods study of
voice and decision-making on four continents; Giving voice to children and
adolescents in Chile: Lessons from the participatory research Mosaic
approach; Youth contribution: Changing perceptions, changing roles
exploring self, peer and public perceptions and changing roles and
responsibilities of street-connected peer researchers and advocates in
Kolkata during the Covid-19 pandemic; Youth contribution: Our child-led
research makes child activists' voices stronger in Brazil; Youth
contribution: How we are working to reduce teenage pregnancy in our
community in Sierra Leone; SECTION II Listening to young people:
Negotiating gendered perspectives on voice and agency; Youth contribution:
'When a girl says something, I learn from her'; Section overview: Listening
to young people: Negotiating gendered perspectives on voice and agency;
Exercising agency on the periphery: Brazilian children and young people's
understanding of agency and choice within contexts of inequality; 'Children
have the right to be controlled by their parents': Children's voice in
rural Sierra Leone; Exploring the lived realities of lesbian, gay and
bisexual (LGB) youth in Bangladesh; Youth contribution: When children and
young people participate, it is possible to make a change; Youth
contribution: Reflections of a young feminist navigating the promise of
sustainable development by world leaders; Youth contribution: Pressure
around sex in exchange for necessities is a setback in the fight against
HIV among adolescent girls living in fishing communities in Kenya's Lake
Victoria region; SECTION III Understanding young people's citizenship:
Marginalisation, agency and the political Imagination; Youth contribution:
'Although the camp has changed as compared to the old times, I don't think
it has changed enough'; Section overview: Understanding young people's
citizenship: marginalisation, agency and the political imagination; Street
youth as human billboards - a paradox of performed street citizenship:
Novel political participation by street youth in Ghana; Informality,
gender, and alternative citizenship: The lives and livelihoods of rural
migrant youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Youth movements and political
protest: Opportunities and limitations of Ethiopia's Qeerroo movement in
affecting transformative change; Youth contribution: Negotiating everyday
life in a Delhi slum as a Muslim girl; SECTION IV Young people's voice,
agency and participation 'beyond borders'; Youth contribution: My
revolution footprint in Zambia; Section overview: Young people's voice,
agency and participation 'beyond borders'; Patterning, enablers and
barriers to adolescents' participation in protracted crises: A case study
of adolescents' mobility and safe access to public spaces in the Gaza
Strip; Adolescents mobilising in real life and online: The Bangladesh
context; Youth contribution: Youth climate leaders: What are the major
barriers facing young people in climate action and how can these be
overcome?; Youth contribution: 'Being part of the military wing gives you
authority here in the camp'; SECTION V Policies and programming for voice,
agency and civic participation; Youth contribution: 'My mother does not
allow me to go out of this camp': Reflections on experiences as an
internally displaced adolescent girl in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia; Section
overview: Policies and programming for voice, agency and civic
participation; Supporting adolescent voice, agency and civic participation
in the context of forced displacement: The role of the Makani/'My Space'
programme one-stop centres in Jordan; Negotiating meaningful dialogue:
Scaffolding safe spaces for street-connected young people's participation
in Kenya; Youth contribution: Youth citizenship and advocacy: Perspectives
and challenges facing Peruvian youth leaders; Youth contribution: 'We give
our views but our suggestions are not implemented': Experiences of school
parliaments in Batu, Ethiopia; Youth contribution: The Khuluma Mentor
programme: Young people's experiences of running a digital peer-led
psychosocial support intervention in South Africa; Final reflections and
next steps for policy, programming and research