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This research contributes to our understanding of the increasing mixture of entertainment and politics by examining the impact of the political statements made by celebrities on the opinions of Anglophone Canadian youth. A recent survey of young Canadians enrolled in first-year university political science courses indicates young people's level of agreement with certain political statements is increased by the endorsement of these positions by Canadian celebrities from the realms of popular music and sports. These results suggest that celebrity endorsements make unpopular statements more palatable, while increasing the level of agreement with already popular opinions.

This article discusses how Korea and China responded to the 2008–2009 global economic crisis, with emphasis on a) public discourse and state policy, b) developments in media, especially new media, and c) conditions of labor and youth, the two overlapping groups that occupy marginalized social positions where seeds for change and progression are also to be found. Although each country has its distinct social and institutional legacy, the contemporary East Asian experiences converge in the prominence of the media, electronics, and information sector as an engine of economic growth that inevitably produces new labor and youth politics. This mode of production and its concurrent political dynamics have been severely affected by the financial meltdown. Because of a shared history of labor-intensive capital accumulation, collective memories of the Asian financial crisis a decade ago, and ongoing debates on the East Asian model of development, however, Korea and China are both in positions to transform the recession into an opportunities for social progression — as demanded by labor forces, old and new — for a viable alternative to the neoliberal doctrine.

Business-related foundations are increasingly appearing to serve the common good as financiers of political education and are also promoting innovative formats aimed at "disadvantaged young people". So far, little is known about how these foundations are intertwined with corporate interests and what understanding of maturity is the basis of their educational work. Based on critical emancipatory theories of society and education, Anja Hirsch shows how the connection with companies can affect programs of company-related foundations and how innovative formats of political youth education reproduce inequality relationships.

This text presents the results of the first research conducted on "green" actions and strikes for climate in high schools across Québec, a Canadian province that witnessed in 2019 the larger street protests of the international youth movement. Based on 20 semistructured interviews with students from 12 high schools, letters from school principals addressed to parents, and research in the media, this text reaffirms that schools are a place of political conflicts and struggles not only between students and adults but also between students in opposite currents of the movement. It is also a reminder of the involvement of young people in autonomous direct action groups (Extinction Rebellion). The discussion then focuses on potential implications of the movement for future elections, the legitimacy of these collective actions in relation to the philosophical debate about civil disobedience (John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Manuel Cerveza-Marzal, and Alan Carter), and the hope for a renewal of the student movement in Québec in the face of a disaster of unprecedented scale.

"Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing portrayal of Soviet youth and state-sponsored popular culture. The primary local venues for Soviet culture were the tens of thousands of klubs where young people found entertainment, leisure, social life, and romance. Here sports, dance, film, theater, music, lectures, and political meetings became vehicles to disseminate a socialist version of modernity. The Soviet way of life was dutifully presented and perceived as the most progressive and advanced, in an attempt to stave off Western influences. In effect, socialist fun became very serious business. As Tsipursky shows, however, Western culture did infiltrate these activities, particularly at local levels, where participants and organizers deceptively cloaked their offerings to appeal to their own audiences. Thus, Soviet modernity evolved as a complex and multivalent ideological device. Tsipursky provides a fresh and original examination of the Kremlin's paramount effort to shape young lives, consumption, popular culture, and to build an emotional community - all against the backdrop of Cold War struggles to win hearts and minds both at home and abroad"--

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This article confronts the assumption that when irregular migration takes place in a context deemed to be terrorist, the two converge. The analysis is drawn from ethnographic fieldwork with young people engaged in the process of irregular migration from the Gaza Strip in occupied Palestine – a place often described as the largest open-air prison in the world. By analysing the process through which young people "coordinate" their movement out of Gaza, and their primary motivations for doing so, the article disrupts the idea of an incumbent criminal convergence of terrorism, irregular migration and human smuggling. It contributes to the growing literature which argues that, rather than operating with or through organized terrorist or criminal networks, the facilitation of irregular migration draws on improvised praxis. In the case of Gaza, it is also undertaken by youth in protest of the status quo of over twelve years of Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza strip, and the rule of the Hamas authority throughout this period. By attending to the experiences of youth in Gaza, the article explains the layers of economic and political agency that enable mobility in what is typically considered to be a highly immobile context.

This article explains why informal voluntaristic agencies of socialization are considered the most adequate for facilitating the absorption of immigrants into society. The major argument is that the structural characteristics of informal agencies, such as moratorium, symmetry, expressiveness, voluntarism and multiplexity, have made them a setting for reciprocal encounters between veterans and newcomers. Such encounters generate a sense of dignity among immigrants and increase their capacity to struggle for economic and political absorption on their own terms.

Published by Elsevier as an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ; This paper explores the politics of scale in the context of youth citizenship. We propose the concept of 'brands of youth citizenship' to understand recent shifts in the state promotion of citizenship formations for young people, and demonstrate how scale is crucial to that agenda. As such, we push forward debates on the scaling of citizenship more broadly through an examination of the imaginative and institutional geographies of learning to be a citizen. The paper's empirical focus is a state-funded youth programme in the UK e National Citizen Service e launched in 2011 and now reaching tens of thousands of 15e17 year olds.We demonstrate the 'branding' of youth citizenship, cast here in terms of social action and designed to create a particular type of citizen-subject. Original research with key architects, delivery providers and young people demonstrates two key points of interest. First, that the scales of youth citizenship embedded in NCS promote engagement at the local scale, as part of a national collective, whilst the global scale is curiously absent. Second, that discourses of youth citizenship are increasingly mobilised alongside ideas of Britishness yet fractured by the geographies of devolution. Overall, the paper explores the scalar politics and performance of youth citizenship, the tensions therein, and the wider implications of this study for both political geographers and society more broadly at a time of heated debate about youthful politics in the United Kingdom and beyond.

Este artículo propone un ejercicio de reconocimiento a los sectores políticos juveniles organizados en los clubes Escuela Republicana y Sociedad Filotémica durante las reformas políticas de mediados del siglo XIX en Bogotá; generando posibilidades interpretativas no solo frente a su condición de juventud, sino a los móviles y posibles intereses políticos y de clase que los llevaron a establecer revisiones exhaustivas a los planteamientos ideológicos del "Socialismo utópico" francés, entre otros referentes. Estos Clubes Políticos, enarbolaron el heraldo de la juventud como sinónimo de transformación y de idealización de los valores de la nueva república, haciendo de la juventud una de las metáforas políticas con mayor trascendencia, tanto en la prensa como en las tribunas. ; This article proposes an exercise of recognition to the youth political sectors organized in the Clubs Escuela Republicana and Sociedad Filotémica, during the political reforms of the mid-nineteenth century in Bogotá; Generating interpretative possibilities not only in the face of their youth, but also the motives and possible political and class interests that led them to establish exhaustive revisions to the ideological approaches of the French "utopian socialism", among other referents. These Political Clubs, hoisted the herald of youth as synonymous with transformation and idealization of the values of the new republic, making youth one of the political metaphors with greater significance, both in the press and in the stands. ; Fil: Cortés Navarro, Luisa Fernanda. Universidad Distrital "Francisco José de Caldas"; Colombia

With the development of the Internet and communication technologies, the world has acquired an important communication tool in the faceof social media, which is increasingly used in political context too. The tendency of the mass usage of social media from the political perspective is a growing one in Armenia as more and more people, especially young people, are engaged in online communication via Facebook due to the effectiveness and easy implementation. This has generated a huge need to conduct social media analyses by collecting, monitoring, and summarizing the activities of young people, online news portals, and political figures on Facebook to uncover the possible influences of social media on the process of creating a political attitude. The article discusses the negative and positive influences of social media on political behavior and political participation of young people in Armenia ; Ինտերնետի և հաղորդակցական տեխնոլոգիաների զարգացման շնորհիվ սոցիալական ցանցերն ավելի ու ավելի են օգտագործվում քաղաքական համատեքստում: Այս միտումը նկատելի է նաև Հայաստանում, հատկապես երիտասարդների շրջանում, որոնք պատրաստ են մասնակցել առցանց հաղորդակցությանը `դրա արդյունավետության և պարզության շնորհիվ: Դրա համար անհրաժեշտ է հետևել, հավաքել, ամփոփել և վերլուծել սոցիալական ցանցերի, առցանց լրատվական պորտալների և քաղաքական գործիչների ազդեցությունը քաղաքականության մեջ երիտասարդների հետաքրքրության ձևավորման վրա: Հոդվածում քննարկվում են սոցիալական ցանցերի բացասական և դրական ազդեցությունը հայ երիտասարդության քաղաքական վարքագծի, մասնավորապես, նրա քաղաքական մասնակցության վրա: ; С развитием Интернета и коммуникационных технологий социальные сети всё шире используются в политическом контексте. Эта тенденция заметна также в Армении, особенно среди молодёжи, которая охотно участвует в онлайн-общении благодаря его эффективности и простоте. В силу этого возникает острая потребность отследить, собрать, обобщить и проанализировать влияние социальных сетей, новостных онлайн-порталов и политических деятелей на формирование у молодых людей интереса к политике. В статье рассматривается негативное и позитивное воздействие социальных сетей на политическое поведение армянской молодёжи, в частности его политическое участие.

AbstractThis article reconstructs the history of the famous anecdote about the battle at Langemarck, where German youth allegedly sang "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" as they hurled themselves against British soldiers, bayonet in hand. Variants, including in poetry and other creative genres, helped to shape a public discourse about bravery. I also reconstruct the discourse on music and war in music journals and daily newspapers, suggesting possible influences on the German High Command, where the anecdote originated. The musical establishment initially ignored this lore—so remote was music in the concert hall from community music-making, including on the battlefield. Yet the enormous weight given to propaganda efforts eventually led musicians to write about and respond compositionally to the Deutschlandlied. The article concludes by examining the conflicting political meanings of the Langemarck anecdote in the decades after World War I.

"Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth presents new critical engagement in conceptualising the roles of youth agency and participation in education, development and the pursuit of social justice. Theoretically, the book is framed within the paradigm of the capability approach, initially developed by Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, and further differentiated by others, including philosopher, Martha Nussbaum. The book unravels the complex relationships between the nature of youth agency and participation, in education, but also in wider political, economic and social arenas, and the potential of young people to expand their freedoms to lead lives they have reason to value. It is thus argued that ethical, sustainable development is contingent on the nature of youth agency and participation in schooling and further afield. Bringing together leading international experts researching children's capabilities, Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth offers a unique exploration of links between exciting new areas of development in theory, research and practical applications of Sen and Nussbaum's ideas. The book addresses a significant gap in the literature drawing on empirical data from the United Kingdom, United States, Jordan, Palestine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Switzerland, New Zealand and beyond, with perspectives presented from both within and outside schools and other formal educational settings. Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth is of particular interest to academics, teaching professionals, undergraduate and postgraduate students of education studies, social policy, youth and development studies"--