Youth, citizenship and empowerment
By: edited by Helena Helve and Claire Wallace
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781315182902; 9781138706965
Subjects: Citizenship; Youth; Social conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Political Freedom & Security; Civil Rights; Human Rights
Description: "This title was first published in 2001. This book brings together a range of perspectives about citizenship and empowerment from around the globe. It thus approaches these important topics from a wide variety of directions, including different geo-political contexts, empirical studies, theoretical approaches and examples of actual projects to empower youth and how they have worked. The book addresses issues of importance for contemporary young people as well as for social policy and will be of relevance to practitioners, youth leaders and academics."--Provided by publisher
Notes: "Routledge revivals"--At head of title on cover

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part PART 1: INTRODUCTION; title: chapter 1 The State and Prospects of Youth and Citizenship; title: part PART 2: YOUTH, CITIZENSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE; title: chapter 2 Youth, Citizenship and Empowerment; title: chapter 3 Civic Participation among Young People in Europe; title: part PART 3: CITIZENSHIP AND POWER; title: chapter 4 Critical Discussion: Empowerment or Exclusion?; title: chapter 5 Young People's Participation in Local Development: Lip Service or Serious Business?; title: chapter 6 The Operative Contingency of Institutions and the Young Fortuna in the Risk Society; title: chapter 7 Mixed Motives of Young Nordic Volunteers; title: chapter 8 Young Adults and Shared Household Living: Achieving Independence through the (Re)negotiation of Peer Relationships; title: part PART 4: CITIZENSHIP AND MARGINALITY; title: chapter 9 Critical Discussion: From the Margins; title: The Darker Side of Empowerment; title: chapter 10 Skinheads; title: Masculinity and Violent Action; title: chapter 11 The Racialisation of Youth Gangs: When Violence Turns into a Fight over a Turf; title: chapter 12 Economy of Emotions and Sexual Violence against Adolescent Girls; title: chapter 13 Foreigners as a Strategic Construction: Finnish Young People's Accounts of Immigrants; title: part PART 5: CITIZENSHIP, VALUES AND ATTITUDES; title: chapter 14 Critical Discussion: Modern or Postmodern Youth?; title: chapter 15 Reflexivity and Changes in Attitudes and Value Structures; title: chapter 16 Young People's Values and Their Lifestyles; title: chapter 17 National, Political and Cultural Identities of Youth: Tendencies in Post-Soviet Ukraine; title: part PART 6: NEW ACTORS, NETWORKS AND EMPOWERMENT; title: chapter 18 Critical Discussion: Globalisation and Empowerment; title: chapter 19 The Globalisation of Childhood and Youth: New Actors and Networks in Protecting Street Children and Working Children in the South; title: chapter 20 Youth and Creation of Civil Society in Slovakia; title: chapter 21 From Urban Warrior to Market Segment? Youth in South Africa 1990-2000.