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Youth Work, Youth Studies, and Co-design: Sustaining a Dynamic Nexus to Progress Youth Participation
Youth work practitioners and youth researchers both share a keen interest in the lives, experiences, and well-being of young people; however, the...
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Participation of scheduled caste youth in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Tamil Nadu: a critical analysis
For achieving the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it is very much called for the meaningful participation of the youth. The young...
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“Collaborators”, “Guides”, “Facilitators”, and “Advocates”: Using a Spatial Lens to Understand the Roles of NGO Practitioners in Supporting Youth Participation
Youth participation has become an increasing focus for international development programs in the Global South. However, in the home, as well as in...
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Youth Participation and Young People’s Democratic Inclusion
Strategies for child and youth participation are now a routine part of working with young people – entrenched in policy and approaches of governments...
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Youth Leadership and Participation in Political Processes
Youth, the transition between childhood and early to middle adulthood, from a critical part of human existence, devoted to education, vocational...
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Youth Participation in Community Development: Issues and Implications
Youth is a dynamic category and a potential human resource for sustainable development and a resilient Society. Although they are numerically...
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Preventing Violence through Participation in Community Building in Youth
Youth’s participation in community service is a proposed but uncharted way to prevent their violent perpetration. To clarify the preventive function,...
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Stakeholders’ Perception on Youths’ e-Participation in Finland: Case Virtual Council
Widening youth participation is recognised as essential in national decision-making processes. One inclusive approach to achieving this is by...
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Civil Society, Volunteerism, and Youth Citizenship in Fiji
Fiji’s multi-ethnic society is historically characterised by low levels of inter-ethnic trust and a segregated civil society, typified by low...
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Atmospheres of Youth Climate Justice Activism: Movements of Affective Political Participation
Recent analyses of young people’s climate justice activism have contributed nuanced understandings of the emotional experiences of young climate...
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Hong Kong Adolescents’ Participation in Political Activities: Correlates of Violent Political Participation
The present study aimed to examine Hong Kong junior secondary school students’ participation in different types of political activities, to identify...
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Disconnected Youth in Urban Areas: Can Youth Councils Enhance Connection to School and Work?
Youth who are disconnected from work and education require policy and practice attention due to the long-term negative impacts of early...
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Social Media as a Shaper, Enabler, and Hurdle in Youth Political Participation
This chapter explores young people’s political participation on and with social media from an ecosystemic perspective. Drawing from an analysis of...
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Welfare Impact of Mobile Financial Services Business Among Youth in Urban and Peri-urban Tanzania
In African countries like Tanzania, mobile financial services (MFS) is one of the empowerment strategies to enhance economic well-being through the...
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Engaging parents to reduce youth violence: evidence from a youth justice board pathfinder programme
The Youth Justice Board’s 2019–2022 strategic plan set youth violence as a priority. As part of this, a ‘pathfinder’ approach was launched to assist...
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Rural-Urban Youth Migration: the Role of Social Networks and Social Media in Youth Migrants’ Transition into Urban Areas as Self-employed Workers in Uganda
Because of fast urbanization in develo** countries, rural-urban youth migration has attracted several researchers to study this phenomenon. In the...
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Social Justice and Young People: Thinking About Distribution, Recognition, and Participation in Youth Studies
This chapter brings together the fields of youth studies and theory of justice with the aim to open up a space within which it is possible to draw on...
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Mind the Gap: Uneven and Unequal Experiences of Youth Citizenship
While the field of youth citizenship has grown in recent years, many ‘gaps’ still exist. This commentary paper takes a critical look at three of...
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Studying Youth and Politics
Chapter 7 explores the critical discussions in the literature on youth political participation with respect to the conceptualizations of...
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What Do JNC Youth Workers Conceive of as ‘Professional Maturity’ in Youth Work Practice
This research set out to take a snapshot of what JNC practitioners in youth and community work defined as ‘Professional Maturity’ and to explore if...
