Making-Up People: Youth, Truth and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367276300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 308 str.

Judith Bessant

Opis

This book is about modern politics and young people. Judith Bessant revises some long-standing myths about children and young people’s politics. She highlights the huge gap between the many ways young people and politics are talked about and how they have long been politically active.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Thinking About Social Representations  2. A Minor Omission: Children Young People and Politics  3. ‘The Past is a Foreign Country’: Young People in the Eighteenth Century  4. Civilising Little Savages: Children and the Dangerous Classes  5. Girls Politics and Delinquency in the 1950s  6. Representing Student Politics in the 1960s  7. The Great Transformation: The Young Precariat and Young Entrepreneur  8. Making the Waves: Contemporary Youth Action  9. Answering Back and the Politics of Recognition

O autorze

Judith Bessant is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and a Professor at RMIT University, Australia and writes about politics, youth studies, policy, sociology, media-technology studies and history. She also advises governments and non-government organizations.