The Silent Revolution in Youth Political Engagement

Sloam, James; Henn, Matt

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“…The debate about youth engagement with climate protests is set against tension in the literature about youth political action between analysis which suggests young people are increasingly disengaged or apathetic (Russell et al, 2002) and researchers who argue that young citizens are turning to new forms of political participation (Norris, 2002;Flanagan, 2013) and returning to traditional electoral politics when they think voting can affect change on issues they care about (Hart and Henn, 2017;Pickard and Bessant, 2017;Sloam and Henn, 2019). Certainly, the sheer scale of turnout of students for school climate strike protests globally has challenged the deficit assumptions implicit in some youth political research (Fisher, 2019).…”

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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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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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“…Todas estas visões sobre a juventude são marcadas por estereótipos e preconceitos adultocêntricos, que questionam seriamente a sua capacidade de avaliação, análise e decisão política. A partir desta visão parcial e centrada no olhar adulto sobre os jovens fica claro que as definições e compartimentações deste universo político, construídas a partir de uma cosmovisão normativa, fazem pouco sentido para compreender a participação dos jovens nas questões cidadãs (Sloam e Henn, 2019).…”

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Jovens ativistas e partidos políticos: convergências e divergências

Martins,

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2024

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Este artigo resulta de um projeto de investigação qualitativo (2019-22) em redor das práticas de intervenção cívica e ativista dos jovens. Nesse âmbito, analisámos as suas biografias políticas, que incluem, por vezes, ligações formais e informais, passadas e presentes a partidos políticos. Temos como objetivo deste artigo detalhar os processos de ligação e afastamento destas organizações, mas também de complementaridade com as suas formas de ativismo. Percebemos nos seus discursos a relevância dos partidos nos seus processos de socialização política, no âmbito familiar e dos pares, influenciando de forma decisiva a trajetória ativista atual.

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“…Formal types of participation including voter turnout in elections at both national and European levels has in many countries fallen over the last thirty years, though there are indications that this is starting to reverse (Politico 2019). This trend is particularly pronounced among young voters (Fieldhouse et al 2007;Sloam and Henn 2019) with studies suggesting that recent generations of young people are least likely to either vote (Kimberlee 2002;Wattenberg 2006) or to participate in formal political organisations such as political parties and trade unions (Dalton and Wattenberg 2000). However, young people who are either too young to vote or wish to participate through broader political expressions (Pilkington and Pollock 2015), do so via non-electoral forms of participation and protest action (Stockemer 2014).…”

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Young people’s orientations towards contemporary politics: Trust, representation and participation

Ellison

Pollock

Grimm³

2020

Z Erziehungswiss

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Over the last thirty years voter turnout in elections at both national and European levels has in many countries fallen albeit with some notable increases in the most recent years. This, together with a decline in the perception of political efficacy and falling trust in political institutions, has been argued to have resulted in a democratic deficit (Norris 2011). Drawing on original data from thirty research locations in fourteen European countries as part of the MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement) project we explore young people's attitudes towards politics and their political behaviour. Our research confirms findings in existing literature: many young people feel that their political system is not working for them. Our results show that many young people harbour deep-seated cynicism towards the political class and tend not to trust political institutions including parliament and political parties. We also demonstrate, however, that the majority of young people are, in fact, interested in politics. Moreover, young people tend to support democracy as a political system. They also continue to perceive voting as the most effective form of participation. That a considerable number of young people are not actively participating in political processes is at odds with their professed beliefs. This paper contributes to understanding the contemporary political orientation of young people by exploring both their attitudes and behaviour. Author's ProofZusammenfassung In den vergangenen dreißig Jahren ist die Wahlbeteiligung junger Bürger in nationalen und europäischen Wahlen kontinuierlich gefallen. Kürzliche Ausnahmen bestätigen die Regel. Abnehmende politische Effizienz und fallendes Vertrauen in Institutionen resultierten in einem demokratischen Defizit (Norris 2011). Basierend auf quantitative Primärdaten aus dreißig Regionen in vierzehn europäischen Ländern untersuchen wir das Interesse, die Einstellungen und Meinungen junger Menschen zu Politik und ihr Handeln bzw. ihre aktive Teilhabe an politischen Prozessen. Die Daten wurden als Teil des MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement) Projekts erhoben. Unsere Forschung bestätigt die in bestehender Literatur dargestellten Ergebnisse: viele junge Menschen glauben, dass ihre Interessen durch das politische System nicht vertreten werden. Sie hegen einen tiefen Zynismus gegenüber der politischen Klasse und tendieren dazu, politischen Institutionen, Parlamenten und Parteien nicht zu vertrauen. Aber unsere Daten zeigen auch, dass trotz dieses Misstrauens, ein Großteil junger Menschen sich durchaus für Politik interessiert und sich positiv für die Demokratie als politisches System ausspricht. Auch sehen die meisten von ihnen demokratische Wahlen als die effizienteste Form der Partizipation und Mitgestaltung. Diese positive Grundeinstellung steht im Widerspruch zur aktiven Beteiligung junger Menschen an politischen Prozessen. Dieser Beitrag trägt zum gegenwärtigen Verständnis politischen Verhaltens und den Einstellungen junger Me...

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The Silent Revolution in Youth Political Engagement

Cited by 3 publications

References 45 publications

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

Jovens ativistas e partidos políticos: convergências e divergências

Young people’s orientations towards contemporary politics: Trust, representation and participation

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