This book considers young peoples conceptions and experiences of social justice through key transitions in their lives. It examines the factors shaping and constraining young peoples actions for a fairer society in a time when real world and virtual social spaces have become fragmented.
Considering questions of race, gender and class the collection includes globally diverse research perspectives, including those from Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Brazil. The book offers inspiring insights on the approaches researchers, youth practitioners and young people are finding to challenge the injustices they face and be a positive force in promoting social justice.
Introduction - Brian McShane and Michael Whelan
Part I: Contemporary Youth Transitions in Space and Place
1. Issues of Class, Space and Haunting in Young Peoples Experiences and
Perceptions of Social (In)Justice in Scotland - Charlotte McPherson
2. Youth and Conservation in the Greater Kruger National Park Landscape -
Samantha S. Sithole, Gretchen M. Walters, Frank Matose and Lambert Simango
3. Education Pioneers in Indonesia and Kenya: Refugee Youth Inhabiting
Educational Spaces in Sites of Transit and Encampment - Michelle J. Bellino
and Realisa D. Masardi
4. Young Womens Right to the City: Collective Action Within Skateboarding
and Surfing Communities - Letķcia O. Galvćo
5. Young People Who Take Drugs, Queering The Rave, and Intersectional
Social (In)justices - Karenza Moore and Zafi Moore
6. Safe Masculinities: The Performance of Young Masculinities in Public
Space - Brian McShane and Michael Whelan
Part II: Activism, Practice and Social Justice
7. Participatory Futures? A Model to Engage Young People as Co-researchers
and Shape Local Health Policy - Nathan Manning, Brian D. Loader and Amanda
Mason-Jones
8. Reappropriation of Public Space as Social Justice: Youth and Batucada -
Elvira Molina-Fernįndez, Jose-Luis Parejo and Elisabet Moles-López
9. Connect, Challenge and Change: Using Digital in Nonformal Education to
Combat the Double-Helix of Exclusion - Paul Adams and James Dellow
10. An Exploration of the Issues Faced by Young People from Racially
Minoritized Communities During Their Education That Have Implications for
Their Progression to Higher Education - Kane Allen, Karan Vickers-Hulse and
Sarah Whitehouse
11. Social Justice in Youth Work: A Dialogue Between Sustainable Development
Goals and the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Trudi Cooper, Harry
Shier, Tim Corney, Hilary Tierney and Jamie Gorman
Conclusion: Towards Social Justice - Brian McShane and Michael Whelan
Nathan Manning is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is particularly interested in examining how citizens understand their relationship to politics and the role that emotions and feelings may play in peoples experience of the political.
