Civic and political engagement among youth

Barrett, Martyn; Pachi, Dimitra

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“…Yet systematic reviews of the literature suggests youth participation in protest movements has been surprisingly under-researched in political science (Martiskainen et al, 2020;Weiss, 2020;Barrie, 2021). Existing studies suggest an individual's propensity to participate in protest is influenced by; "availability", both biographical and structural, and experiences of political engagement, (for example see Schussman and Soule, 2005;Opp, 2009;de Moor and Verhaegen, 2020), and that participation may vary within and between cultural contexts as issues of gender, region, age and institutional power intersect to influence youth activists in complex ways (Martyn and Dimitra, 2019).…”

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“…Interest in understanding biographical availability to protest is growing, especially within cross-cultural contexts (Walker, 2020). Personal constraints that may restrict young people's availability to engage in protest activities include education, money, religious socialization, gender norms and time (Martyn and Dimitra, 2019). Recent reports support the notion that climate strikers are likely to be well-resourced young people; with findings suggesting that European strikers were wealthier youth, whose parents had high levels of educational attainment .…”

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“…Studies that have interrogated broad factors that influence youth engagement in political protest suggest that availability (both biographical and structural), political engagement and biospheric values have significant influence on youth participation in protests in general, although most studies of the influence of these factors have been undertaken in the global North (Martyn and Dimitra, 2019). Given the lack of youth climate-protest studies in diverse cultural contexts, and concern about the lack of North-South collaborations in political engagement research more generally (Tam and Milfont, 2020), this exploratory study focused initially on two questions in a research partnership across seven world cities.…”

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Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

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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. Despite the international nature of the climate strikes, we know little about the factors that influenced youth participation in these protests beyond the global North. This matters because youth of the global South are disproportionately impacted by climate change and there is growing concern that the climate movement is dominated by narratives that marginalize the voices and priorities of Indigenous communities and people of color. In this context, the exploratory research reported here aimed to compare the attitudes of climate protesters (n = 314) and their non-protester peers (n = 1,217), in diverse city samples drawn from a wider study of children and youth aged 12–24 years, living in Christchurch (New Zealand); Dhaka (Bangladesh); Lambeth, London (United Kingdom); Makhanda (South Africa); New Delhi (India); São Paulo (Brazil); and Yokohama (Japan). Using cross-sectional data (N = 1,531) and binary logistic regression models, researchers examined three common explanations for youth participation in protest: availability (biographical and structural), political engagement (reported individual and collective efficacy of strikers and non-strikers), and self-reported biospheric values amongst participants. Results indicate that even in diverse city samples, structural availability (civic skills and organizational membership) predicted strike participation across city samples, but not political engagement (self-efficacy and collective efficacy). Youth who reported that ‘living in harmony with nature and animals’ was important for their wellbeing, were also more likely to strike than their peers. Descriptive statistics indicated that the majority (85 percent) of all protestors in this study agreed climate change was a serious issue and a startling 65 percent said that they think about climate change “all the time”. Reported rates of youth climate protest participation varied across city samples as did the extent to which participants reported having friends take part or expecting climate change to have a personal impact. While the study is exploratory, it points to the need for more extensive research to understand the diversity of youth participation in ‘global climate strikes’.

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Section: Young People Environmental Politics and Activism: Who Protests And Why?mentioning

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Section: Young People Environmental Politics and Activism: Who Protests And Why?mentioning

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“…Studies on adolescents and school students, who are in a critical period of their political socialization (Sears & Brown, 2013), are few and far between. The limited number of studies focusing on political emotions among youth has already been noticed by Barrett and Pachi (2019). This limits the generalizability of the current findings, as emotions in the context of politics might play a specific role for adolescents during the impressionable years of political learning.…”

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The associations between discrete emotions and political learning: A cross-disciplinary meta-analysis and systematic review

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Botes³

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In recent decades, researchers' interest in the role of emotions in individual political learning has grown. However, it is still unclear whether and how discrete emotions are associated with political learning. Through a cross-disciplinary multilevel meta-analysis and systematic review (k = 66, N = 486), we address this question by analyzing various associations of political learning, such as political attention, information seeking, discussions, knowledge, and knowledge gain. We uncovered small positive associations (r =.05 to.13.) for activating emotions, of both negative (especially anger) and positive valence (e.g., enthusiasm, only in cross-sectional designs), but no associations for deactivating emotions. We discuss theoretical implications and recommend future research to include previously unconsidered emotions in order to extend existing findings.

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“…Moreover even 85 percent of all young protestors in this study agreed that climate change was a serious issue. The research explored that youth engaging in climate action should be analysed both following local contexts and international comparisons, it effects their perceptions on climate change solutions and environmental concerns (Martyn and Dimitra, 2019;Prendergast et al, 2021). Other researchers focused on territorial differences of wellbeing and climate change interface (Vaznonienė and Vaznonis, 2021), analysed people's socioeconomic characteristics and their perception of nature as a value (Wojewódzka-Wiewiórska et al, 2022) or nature as positive factor for youth development (Gifford and Nilsson, 2014;Bowers et al (2021), etc.…”

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Youth Attitudes to Nature and Climate Change: Evidence From European Social Survey

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2023

Management Theory and Studies for Rural Business and Infrastructure Development

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In the discourse of social sciences, more and more attention is paid to the analysis of nature as a value and the problems of climate change. However, in the context of sustainable development, the attitude of different generations towards nature and climate change is important. Although the youth as a social group is seen as the future generation, it is noticeable that not many studies are conducted in Lithuania, where the opinion of the youth and their responsibility for changes in nature and climate change processes are evaluated. Accordingly, the aim of the researchto determine whether nature and climate change are important to youth in Lithuania. Data from European Social Survey (ESS) Round 10 (2021) were used. Logical analysis and synthesis, comparison method, statistical data analysis were applied, Pearson correlation coefficient was calculated. The research results revealed that youth sufficiently perceive nature as a value and see climate change as a problem that must be not only observed but also solved.

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Civic and political engagement among youth

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Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

The associations between discrete emotions and political learning: A cross-disciplinary meta-analysis and systematic review

Youth Attitudes to Nature and Climate Change: Evidence From European Social Survey

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