Young People, Radical Democracy and Community Development

“This timely book focuses on how more radical practices might be needed to challenge and overcome injustice. The sharing of global challenges and examples will appeal to numerous subject disciplines, and will be well received by academics and students alike." Alan Smith, Leeds Beckett University

“This inspiring collection successfully rediscovers 'community as a verb’ and cultivates ‘educated hope’ for radical democracy and its possibilities. A pleasure to read, and a powerful resource for scholars, activists and community developers alike.” Jacqueline Kennelly, Carleton University

Janet Batsleer worked until recently as Reader in Community Education and Principal Lecturer in Youth and Community Work at Manchester Metropolitan University

Harriet Rowley is Senior Lecturer in Education and Community at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Demet Lüküslü is Professor of Sociology at Yeditepe University, Turkey.

PART I Young people: radical democracy and community development

Introduction: Young people, radical democracy and community development - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküslü

Thinking/acting with migrants under neoliberalism: "It's horrible to perceive solidarity as merely absorbing the sorrow of one side". - Cihan Erdal

PART II Young people acting together for eco-justice

Imagining the future under capitalism: young people involved in environmental activism in an economic crisis - Dena Arya

Community building for and through sustainable food - Dominic Zimmermann

Daring, dissolving and dancing: making communities with water - Róisín O’Gorman

PART III Acts of citizenship?

Community development, empowerment and youth participation in social-housing neighbourhoods in France - Gülçin Erdi

LGBTQ+ young peoples’ sexuality and gender citizenship in digital spaces - Sally Carr and Ali Hanbury

Enabling spaces for and with marginalised young people: the case of the Disha peer support and speak out group - Sadhana Natu

Meaningful youth engagement in community programming in Kenya - Yvonne Akinyi Ochieng, Su Lyn Corcoran and Kate Pahl

PART IV Black lives still matter

Conceptualising community development through a pedagogy of convivência: youth, race and territory in Brazil - Fernando Lannes Fernandes and Andrea Rodriguez

"I did not want the project to end. For me, it should last forever": exploring a community development framework based on learned lessons from marginalised youth voices in Brazil - Andrea Rodriguez and Fernando Lannes Fernandes

Burning work: field map - Christxpher Oliver

PART V Practising hope

They are not your warriors: intergenerational tensions and practices of hope in young people’s environmental activism - Dena Arya

Afterword: Community as prefigurative practice – practices of hope - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküsl ü