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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Youth Politics"”.
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Youth Politics between Informality and State Violence in Nairobi, Kenya.
This thesis explores the complex politics of youth in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, as they negotiate between a globalized neoliberal economy and a very localized regime of state violence carried out by police. Situating youth politics in Kenya’s post-independence political history, it …
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Complicating Youth in Contemporary Turkey: Cultural Activism and a New Muslim Youth Identity
The topic of youth and being young in modern Turkey are frequently expressed in narratives that are either fragmented or totalizing, and frequently reductionist. In a time of resurgent youth politics globally, and in the Middle East-North Africa region and Turkey especially, the ways youth and …
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Sayling, stories from the mothership: narrating political geographies of Nigerian campus cultism
… explore the interface of occult violence and youth politics in the contemporary period. They are connected through overlapping characters and through their relationships to a central geography: the University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria’s oldest and most prestigious institute of higher education …
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Neoliberalism and the Cultural and Political Dispositions and Practices of Millennials in London and LA: a socio-cognitive analysis
… surrounded by. The contemporary literature on youth and youth politics tends to view young people as active and cognizant agents in the reproduction of socio-cultural and political-economic institutions, discourses, and practices. Applying a socio-cognitive approach to the analysis of interview …
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Apprentices to power: the cultivation of American youth nationalism, 1935-1970
… dissertation investigates how privately-operated youth leadership programs promoted citizenship among millions of adolescents and furnished political apprenticeships for many past and current American leaders. It considers four major programs: the American Legion’s Boys’ State and Boys’ Nation; …
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Incorporating Youth into the Political Arena: Elite Structures, Elite-youth Linkages, and Youth (De-) mobilization in post-1960 Turkey (1960-2016)
… why the Turkish state encountered sustained youth contention and failed to contain it in the 1960s and the 1970s, while it proved more capable in preventing the emergence/escalation of youth dissent in the post-1980 period. Studies on social movements have not treated youth as a central …
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银幕青春——冷战与邵氏青春电影 (1950s-1970s) = HONG KONG YOUTH ON SCREEN: THE COLD WAR AND TEEN MOVIES MADE BY SHAW BROTHERS (1950S-1970S)
… Brothers.The next chapter pays attention to the youth images presented in the teen movies produced by Shaw Brothers,Cathy and Hong Kong leftist film. The last chapter looks into the two movies: Spring Song (1959) and The Joy of Spring (1966) to explore how a variety of imaginations of Hong Kong …
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Participation Through Political Education. A mixed methods study assessing the utility of an inclusive democratic promotion framework for enhancing youth engagement interventions.
… allure’ of liberal democracies continue, the youth cohort have come to typify the decline in quality within established democracies and have been central targets of interventions and initiatives to re-engage. Focus has centred around traditional barriers at the state- citizen level, with less …