Youth Activism - A Reference Handbook

This resource provides a wide-ranging survey of the past, present, and future of youth activism in the USA and around the world. The work places a special focus on prominent youth activists, their organizations, and the causes to which they are determined to make change, including civil rights, environmental issues such as climate change, gender and LGBTQ+ rights, and US military actions and financial investments to which they are opposed. How has youth activism changed over the decades? What are the keys to fostering civic engagement among young people? What tools do young people use now to advance political causes important to them? What impact are they having on political and legal struggles over climate change, immigration, and civil rights? This all-in-one resource answers all those questions and more.>

About the author

Hava Rachel Gordon, Ph.D. is a professor of sociology at the University of Denver. She specializes in the social construction of inequalities such as gender, race, class and age; social movements; and schooling and education in the context of neoliberalism. She is the author of We Fight to Win: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism (2009) and This is Our School! Race and Community Resistance to School Reform (2021), which won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association. She teaches courses on gender, globalization, youth, research methods, and social movements.

Product details

• Authors: Hava Rachel Gordon
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781440879883
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-7988-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Contemporary World Issues
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Political activism, Political leaders & leadership, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and ethical issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement, Social discrimination and social justice