Overview

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.

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Author:   Charlotte McPherson (The University of Melbourne) ,  Samantha Sithole ,  Gretchen M. Walters (University of Lausanne) ,  Frank Matose (University of Cape Town)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781529238716

ISBN 10:   1529238714
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   23 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Whelan and McShane Part 1: Spatiality of contemporary youth transitions (3 or 4 chapters) 1.Re-claiming learning spaces; decolonial student-led activism in South African institutes of higher education - Jamie Whelan and Ryan Johnson 2.Young People Who Use Drugs, Queer Partying Spaces, and Intersectional Social In/Justices - Karenza Moore 3.Youth in Waithood: Creative Perspectives on Growing up in Conflict Contexts - Diksha Poddar 4.Social Justice Approaches in Community-Based Youth Activism Spaces: a Critical Discourse Analysis Case Study - Laura Weiner 5.Space to connect, challenge and change’ the use of online spaces for the creative engagement of excluded young people in programmes of non-formal education - Paul Adams and James Dellow Youth voice and social action (3 or 4 chapters) 6.Exploring and Creating Intergenerational Spaces for Disability Activism in the UK: A Disabled Young Person-Led Research Project - Anita Franklin and Geraldine Brady, 7.Young Futures: Engaging young people as co-researchers and shaping local health policy in Hartlepool, UK - Nathan Manning, Brian D. Loader and Amanda Mason-Jones 8.Supporting young people racialised as Black and Brown to continue in higher education - Karan Vickers-Hulse and Sarah Whitehouse 9.Mismatches Between Youth Aspirations and Policy Provisioning in Nigeria: Exploring An ‘Incompatibility Hypothesis’ - Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima 10.The insider-outsider: politics and advocacy in addressing the health needs of young people - Michael Whelan and Maria Cable Towards a realisation of social justice (2 chapters) No chapters were specified for this section but likely to be concluding sections by the editors

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Author Information

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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