This book considers young people’s conceptions and experiences of social justice through key transitions in their lives. It examines the factors shaping and constraining young people’s actions for a fairer society in a time when real world and virtual social spaces have become fragmented.
Considering questions of race, gender and class the collection includes globally diverse research perspectives, including those from Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Brazil. The book offers inspiring insights on the approaches researchers, youth practitioners and young people are finding to challenge the injustices they face and be a positive force in promoting social justice.
Table of Content
Introduction – Brian Mc Shane and Michael Whelan
Part 1: Contemporary Youth Transitions in Space and Place
1. Issues of Class, Space and Haunting in Young People’s Experiences and Perceptions of Social (In)Justice in Scotland – Charlotte Mc Pherson
2. Youth and Conservation in the Greater Kruger National Park Landscape – Samantha S. Sithole, Gretchen M. Walters, Frank Matose and Lambert Simango
3. Education Pioneers in Indonesia and Kenya: Refugee Youth Inhabiting Educational Spaces in Sites of Transit and Encampment – Michelle J. Bellino and Realisa D. Masardi
4. Young Women’s Right to the City: Collective Action Within Skateboarding and Surfing Communities – Letícia O. Galvão
5. Young People Who Take Drugs, Queering ‘The Rave’, and Intersectional Social In/Justices – Karenza Moore and Zafi Moore
6. ‘Safe’ Masculinities- The Performance of Young Masculinities in Public Space – Brian Mc Shane and Michael Whelan
Part 2: Activism, Practice and Social Justice
7. Participatory Futures? A Mode to Engage Young People as Co-researchers and Shape Local Health Policy – Nathan Manning, Brian D. Loader and Amanda Mason-Jones
8. Re-Appropriation of Public Space as Social Justice: Youth and Batucada – Elvira Molina-Fernández, Jose-Luis Parejo and Elisabet Moles-López
9. ‘Connect, Challenge and Change’, Using Digital in Nonformal Education to Combat the Double-Helix of Exclusion – Paul Adams and James Dellow
10. An Exploration of the Issues Faced by Young People from Racially Minoritised Communities During Their Education That Have Implications for Their Progression to Higher Education – Kane Allen, Karan Vickers-Hulse and Sarah Whitehouse
11. Social Justice in Youth Work: A Dialogue Between Sustainable Development Goals and the Convention on the Rights of the Child – Trudi Cooper, Harry Shier, Tim Corney, Hilary Tierney and Jamie Gorman
Conclusion: Towards Social Justice – Brian Mc Shane and Michael Whelan
About the author
Nathan Manning is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is particularly interested in examining how citizens understand their relationship to politics and the role that emotions and feelings may play in people’s experience of ‘the political’.
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