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[Commlist] CFP Youth activisms and new socio-political commitments in a context of global uncertainty

Thu Jan 05 13:10:30 GMT 2023




Journal: Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi

CFP: Youth activisms and new socio-political commitments in a context of global uncertainty

Editors: Yolanda Agudo Arroyo (UNED), Gomer Betancor Nuez (UNED) and Emma Gómez Nicolau (Universitat Jaume I)

Submission deadline: 1 September, 2023

Publication: 1 October, 2024

Languages: English, Spanish, Valencian-Catalan.

For this monograph we are interested in contributions exploring the reality of youth activisms and the shape of adolescent and young people’s socio-political commitments in diverse social and geographical contexts. The decline of ‘traditional’ youth participation in electoral processes or other institutional forms is generally interpreted as a sign of young people’s political disaffection. However, in the last decade prominent adolescents and young people in activist movements have been at the forefront of protest in the global arena. The ways people participate and identify themselves as activists span a wide range of formulas, not only traditional forms (political parties, student unions, action groups, etc.), but also everyday politics and consumer activism. The expansion of neoliberalism and its spread into activist subjectivities has led to new languages of action more oriented towards individual transformation: from deconstruction practices in feminist landscapes, queer activisms or polyamorous activisms, to self-improvement and monitoring of consumer habits in environmental and climate change struggles. Youth activism has also been affected by Covid-19—putting a stop to and blurring some of the initiatives in which young people were most visible—and by the context of climate crisis, war and recession, which can modify activist roadmaps and trigger new issues for action that take different directions.

Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi invites researchers to submit their theoretical and empirical research on these issues through an interdisciplinary lens from the perspectives of critical sociology, democratic theory, feminist theory, political philosophy and applied ethics.

The main topics proposed in this call are as follows:

Forms of organisation in youth participation: adolescence and youth in organisations, assemblies, groups and movements. Junctions between digital and in-person forms in youth militancy and activisms.
Youth and adolescent leadership in the global media arena.
Youth activisms in the Global South: stories of postcolonial struggles, new social surges, neoliberalism and structural readjustments. New activist subjectivities, consumerism and activism from an individual perspective. Youth protagonism in the climate change struggle, feminisms and queer activisms, far right movements, etc.
Intersectionality as a new facilitating approach in youth activisms.
Crisis of representation in institutional participation and the reconfiguration of youth activism and participation. Crisis, pandemics and recessions: from the protest cycle of 2011 to today’s activisms.

No payment from authors is expected. Further information regarding Recerca and the instructions for submitting original manuscripts can be consulted at https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/recerca/about/submissions <https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/recerca/about/submissions>

Please, write (enicolau /at/ uji.es) <mailto:(enicolau /at/ uji.es)> if you require any additional explanation.

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