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

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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