Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency

ISBN-13: 9780197581667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str.

Alison L. Gash; Daniel J. Tichenor

Recenzje

Young people are key to the future of our democracy, and yet, they are often rendered marginal to the study of American politics. In Democracy's Child, Gash and Tichenor offer a powerful framework to understand the role of children and young people in politics. In making their case for a more expansive view of why children and young people are central to democratic politics, the authors skillfully weave present-day illustrations, from school board fights and youth activism over gun control and immigrant rights, to historical examples from labor movements and the Civil Rights Movement. This is a masterfully written book, with an agenda-setting framework, and a call to action that should inspire scholarship and investments in young people's political agency for years to come.

O autorze

Alison Gash is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Oregon. Her research focuses on the substantive intersections of law and social policy and their capacity to both reify and reform systems of exclusion-particularly those affecting BIPOC, Queer, and low-income communities. She is the author of Below the Radar: How Silence Can Save Civil Rights (Oxford, 2015) as well as numerous articles on legal advocacy and collaborative governance published in Law & Social Inquiry, JPART, and a range of other peer-reviewed journals. She has received multiple awards for her teaching, research and social justice advocacy including the Christian Bay Award, the Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy and the Martin Luther King Award for Social Justice. Gash is a frequent public lecturer with One Day University and contributor to outlets, including Politico, Newsweek, Washington Monthly, Slate, Washington Post, Fortune, The Conversation, and National Public Radio. Daniel J. Tichenor is the Philip H. Knight Chair of Social Science and Wayne Morse Center Senior Fellow at the University of Oregon. A scholar of immigration policy, social movements, and political history, he has published nine books, including Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control and Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements and the Transformation of American Politics. His research awards include the American Political Science Association's Gladys Kammerer Award, Jack Walker Prize, Mary Parker Follette Award, Polity Prize, and Charles Redd Award. He has been a fellow at Princeton's School of Policy and International Affairs, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Abba Schwartz Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, a research scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, and was named to the inaugural class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2015. He has testified and provided expert briefings to Congress on immigration law and policy, and provided commentary and essays for National Public Radio, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Utne Reader, and The Nation.