Sarah Pickard offers a detailed and wide-ranging assessment of electoral and non-electoral
political participation of young people in contemporary Britain, drawing on perspectives and …

While the field of youth citizenship has grown rapidly in the past 2 decades, it still remains a
contested idea—not least because of the 'liminal'or in‐between status that young people …

Young people's climate activism must stand as one of the most remarkable and important
mass movements of our age. At levels of organization from the local to the global, young …

The year 2018 was a watershed in environmental activism, especially regarding young
activists. Greta Thunberg started her School Strikes for Climate and the environmental …

This book is about modern politics and young people. Judith Bessant revises some long-
standing myths about children and young people's politics. She highlights the huge gap …

This paper discusses the questions at the heart of the tussle between different types of
knowledge within curricula that we conceptualise as 'curriculum wars'. Across the world, we …

ABSTRACT The SchoolStrike4Climate protests have renewed interest in youth political
participation, but there has been little scholarly explanation for how young people came to …

This article provides an introduction to a Special Issue of The Journal of Youth Studies on
young people and environmental politics. This volume was motivated by the wave of youth …

This article examines youth participation the school climate strikes of 2018 and 2019 (also
known as# Fridays4Future), through an exploratory study conducted in seven diverse cities …

“You are stealing our future in front of our very eyes.” These words from Greta Thunberg
encapsulate two prominent themes in the global wave of environmental activism since 2018 …