Youth Active Citizenship in Europe Ethnographies of Participation
This volume engages with the contested concept of ‘active citizenship’. It analyses the use and understanding of active citizenship in youth civic and political initiatives in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the UK. Using ethnographic data and insights from the cross-Europe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction; Shakuntala Banaji
- 2. Motivations for active citizenship in youth organisations in the Italian context; Antonella Guarino, Elvira Cicognani and Bruna Zani
- 3. Youth organisations as a developmental context: A developmental psychological perspective; Clara Mikolajczyk, Katharina Eckstein and Peter Noack
- 4. Between emotion and reason: The role of affective networks and events in sustaining the daily experience of environmental activism; Joana P. Cruz, Carla Malafaia, José Eduardo Silva and Isabel Menezes
- 5. Preaching to the choir: Patterns of non/diversity in youth citizenship movements; Sam Mejias and Shakuntala Banaji
- 6. When Facebook is (not) enough: Hybridity in the media and political strategies of leftist youth organisations; Alena Mackova, Sam Mejias and Jakub Macek
- 7. The cost of intensive civic participation: Young activists on the edge of burnout; Mai Beilmann
- 8. Conclusion: Rhetorics and Realities ofActive Young Citizens Across the European Union; Shakuntala Banaji