Grasso / Bessant Governing Youth Politics in the Age of Surveillance

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-80757-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: The Criminalization of Political Dissent

Drawing on case studies from around the world, contributors to this ground-breaking book explore a major contemporary paradox: on the one hand, young people today are at the forefront of political campaigns promoting social rights and ethical ideas that challenge authoritarian orders and elite privileges. On the other hand, too many governments, some claiming to be committed to liberal democratic values, social inclusion and youth participation are engaged in repressing political activities that contest the status quo.

Contributors to this ground-breaking book explore how, especially since 9/11, governments, state agencies and other traditional power holders around the globe have reacted to political dissent authored by young people. While the ‘need’ to enhance ‘youth political participation’ is promoted, the cases in this book document how states are using everything from surveillance, summary offences, expulsion from universities, ‘gag laws’ and ‘anti-terror’ legislation, and even imprisonment to repress certain forms of young people’s political activism. These responses diminish the public sphere and create civic spaces hostile to political participation by any citizen.

This book forms part of The Criminalization of Political Dissent series. It documents and interprets the many ways contemporary governments and agencies now routinely use various techniques to repress and criminalize political dissent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grasso, Maria T.

Grasso, Maria

Bessant, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Dissent and Democratic Practice

- Governing Youth Politics in the Age of Surveillance

Judith Bessant and Maria Grasso

- Theorising Student Protest, Liberalism and the Problem of Legitimacy

Rob Watts

Part II: Youthful Protest and Repressive Law

- Panic Works: the ‘Gag Law’ and the Unruly Youth in Spain

Kerman Calvo and Martín Portos

- Controlling Dissent through Security in Contemporary Spain

Pedro Limón López and Laura Fernández de Mosteyrín

- "Proxy Repression"? The Causes Behind the Change of Protest Control Repertoire by the Université Du Québec À Montréal during the 2015 Student Strike

Luc Chicoine

- Governing, Monitoring and Regulating Youth Protest in Contemporary Britain

Sarah Pickard

Part III: Anti-Terror Legislation and the Youthful Other

- Surveillance of Muslim Youth and Counter Terrorism in Kenya

Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen

- On Becoming ‘Radicalised’: Pre-emptive Surveillance and Intervention to Save the Young Muslim in the UK

Vicki Coppock, Surinder Guru and Tony Stanley

- Active Citizenship and Governmentality: The Politics and Resistance Of Young Muslims In The Security State

Anisa Mustafa

Part IV: Resisting and Creating New Public Spheres

- What Future for Young People’s Political Activism?

Jane McDonnell

- Effects of the Regime in Malaysia on Youth Political Participation

Norhafiza Mohd Hed

- Russian Politics of Radicalisation and Surveillance

Anna Schwenck

- Biocultural Metrics and the Moral Policing of Young People’s Politics in Contemporary India

Pramod Nayar

- Surveillance and the Student: Government Policing of Young Women’s Politics

Paromita Sen

- Electoral Engineering and Surveillance: British Young People and Politics

Matt Henn, Ben Oldfield and Judith Bessant

Über Autor(innen)

Maria T. Grasso is Professor at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She is the author of Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe (2016) and co-editor of Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis (2015). Her research focuses on political sociology and political engagement.

Judith Bessant is Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is widely published with books in policy, sociology, politics, youth studies, media studies and history, and has worked as an advisor for governments and non-government organizations. In 2017 she became a Member of the Order of Australia for her significant service to education as a social scientist, advocate and academic specialising in youth studies research.