The Beginning of Politics: Youthful Political Agency in Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9780367739911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 156 str.

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio; Jouni Hakli

Opis

This book presents theoretically ambitious and empirically grounded research on the multiplicity of children and young people’s everyday political agencies in various locations including Sri Lanka, Palestine, Sweden, New Zealand, the US, and the UK.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Space and Polity.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.