The Beginning of Politics: Youthful Political Agency in Everyday Life

Author:   Kirsi Pauliina Kallio (University of Tampere, Finland) ,  Jouni Hakli (University of Tampere, Finland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138806382


Pages:   148
Publication Date:   18 September 2014
Format:   Hardback
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The Beginning of Politics: Youthful Political Agency in Everyday Life


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The conventional wisdom according to which children’s lives should be safe from adult concerns tends to situate them categorically outside the political. Thus understood, children become political agents when they reach maturity and eligibility to formal participation. Alternatively, political skills and competences may be seen to develop gradually through political socialization. Both views are challenged in recent scholarship on youthful politics beyond the formal, adult-centered political world. This book considers politics as it appears and unfolds in children and young people’s everyday lives. The collection problematizes several key concepts in the research field and introduces a relational reading of youthful political agency based on social, spatial and political theorization. The chapters engage with youthful realities in Sri Lanka, Palestine, Sweden, New Zealand, the US and the UK, revealing a variety of ways in which children and youth are important political actors in their own right. The book also includes an extensive literary review on the study of children and young people’s politics in the past decade. This book was originally published as a special issue of Space and Polity.

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Author:   Kirsi Pauliina Kallio (University of Tampere, Finland) ,  Jouni Hakli (University of Tampere, Finland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138806382


ISBN 10:   1138806382
Pages:   148
Publication Date:   18 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Children and Young People’s Politics in Everyday Life Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Jouni Häkli 2. Friendship and environmental politics in childhood Ann E. Bartos 3. Intergenerational Mapping and the Cultural Politics of Memory Katharyne Mitchell and Sarah Elwood 4. ‘All the Beautiful Things’: Trauma, Aesthetics and the Politics of Palestinian Childhood David Jones Marshall 5. Performing the Political through Public Space: Teenage Girls’ Everyday Use of a City Park Sofia Cele 6. Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship Lynn A. Staeheli, Kafui Attoh and Don Mitchell 7. Young People’s Everyday Politics in Post-conflict Sri Lanka Fazeeha Azmi, Cathrine Brun and Ragnhild Lund 8. Young People, Children, Politics and Space: A Decade of Youthful Political Geography Scholarship 2003–13 Tracey Skelton 9. The Child-Body-Politic: Afterword on ‘Children and Young People’s Politics in Everyday Life’ Chris Philo and Fiona Smith

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Kirsi Pauliina Kallio is Research Fellow at the University of Tampere, Finland. Kallio’s work concentrates on youthful political agency, children’s rights, and child and youth policy. Jouni Häkli is Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland. Häkli’s areas of research include political geography, state spatiality and transnationalization.

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