Overview

This book analyses the relationship between youth and participation, looking specifically at those repertories of involvement that are commonly clustered under the concept of “unconventional political participation”. The author focuses on the connections between youth practices of participation and youth conditions in contemporary society. Drawing from the analysis of three ethnographic case studies conducted on experiences of youth participation in Italy and Sweden, the circumstances and the reasons leading young people to express their political ideas through forms of engagement located outside the realm of “formal politics” are explored. The book seeks to bring back the specificities of contemporary youth at the centre of the analysis of youth practices of participation, highlighting their often overlooked socio-historical and generational `situatedness’. Youth and Unconventional Political Engagement will be of interest students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including youth studies, political science, and sociology.

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Author:   Ilaria Pitti
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
ISBN:  

9783319756851

ISBN 10:   3319756850
Publication Date:   04 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Unconventional Political Participation: An Overview.- 3. Young People and Unconventional Political Engagement.- 4. “What do We Want? We Want Everything!”: Young Swedish Activists and the “Union of Citizens”.- 5. “If Not Now, When?”: Young Italian Activists and the Occupied Social Centre.- 6. “We Will Never Be What You Want Us to Be”: Young Football Fans and the Ultras Centre.- 7. Unconventional is the New Conventional? Conclusive Reflections.

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Ilaria Pitti is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Studies on Civic Engagement, Örebro University, Sweden and holds a visiting position at the University of Bologna, Italy.

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