Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 The sociology of youth
Section 1 Politics and the Political
Commentary
2 A revisionist account of the crisis of democracy and ‘youth participation’
3 Thinking sociologically about young people and the far-right
4 Beyond the indignation of young climate activists: the political potential of climate-emotions
5 Researching the criminalisation of young people’s dissent: insights from Southeast Asia
Section 2 Equity and Justice
Commentary
6 Young people, citizenship and climate justice
7 Making young people investable: financing social services through Social Impact Bonds
8 Researching racial justice in United States schooling: youth silence and voice
9 Towards a sociology of global south youth: navigating material differences and false binaries
10 Gigs, hustles and hope: mixed livelihoods for global youth beyond the wage
Commentary
Section 3 Research, Meaning and Knowledge Making
Commentary
11 Knowing young people and social media: platforms, everyday cultures, risk and datafication
12 Conceptual and methodological issues in research with disabled youth in the Global South: towards decolonial futures in pandemic times
13 Encouraging young people’s collective struggles against the climate crisis: radical democratic education in the era of marketization
14 Understanding young people’s visual politics: making young people’s participation (more) visible
Section 4 Disruptions
Commentary
15 Eating our young: time for the state to rein in Big Tech
16 Disruptive do-it-ourselves politics: young climate and environmental activists
17 Advocating for food sovereignty in the UN Committee on World Food Security: facilitating young people’s participation in policy making
18 The feminista encapuchada: gender justice and affective (de)attachments in the Chilean high school feminist movement
19 Refugees welcome? Refugee young people, vulnerability, conditionality and belonging in Europe
Section 5 Health and Wellbeing
Commentary
20 Blak spaces or queer spaces: how having a multiplicity of identities impacts the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQ+ young people in Australia
21 Youth, health and the digital
22 ‘What about the young people?’ A media analysis of youth mental health through Victoria’s Covid lockdowns
23 Young people’s participation in the National Health Insurance Policy in South Africa
Section 6 Ethics, Research Policy and Practice
Commentary
24 On Bourdieu’s sociological method, symbolic violence, and good practice in sociology of youth research
25 Young people and participatory research in times of crises
26 Visibility, voice and emancipation: suggestions for decolonising research ethics in the sociology of youth
27 Ethics, research policy and practice: changes, challenges and dilemmas in ethnographic youth research
Index