This book increases the awareness of youth political agency and how it relates to adults, governments, communities, and local and global discourse. It reveals the complexity of youth's political lives as it intersects with social identifiers such as location, gender, and political status, and interacts with neoliberal discourse embedded in media, local politics, education, and religious idioms. This book fills a gap in existing research to provide a body of literature on the political socialization and its manifestation in youth political agency. The research findings aid in understanding the abilities of youth to reason, reflect upon, articulate, and act upon their political views. This research is not only pertinent to children in Palestine, but can also be applied to children living everywhere as global discourse of oppression is not limited to a location, age or a group.

Autorentext
Janette Habashi is Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Her research with children, youth, and indigenous populations examines socialization, national identity, political participation, resistance, and children's rights-based approaches in policy and research.  

Inhalt
Part I: Political socialization and its processes.- 1. Introduction to Palestinian youth journaling project.- 2. Reconceptualizing youth political socialization: a theoretical framework.- 3. Community contribution to political socialization: the global is local.- 4. Social Identifiers: making meaning of intersectionality.- 5. Geopolitics of religion and its role in youth agency.- 6. Limitations of the educational structure in political socialization.- 7. Media and the neoliberal agenda within political socialization.- Part II: The outcome of political socialization.- 8. The evolvement of national identity: A never-ending process.- 9. Youth agency/activism: The hidden outcome .- 10. The normalization of youth political agency.