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Young People in the Global South: Voice, agency and citizenship

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Young People in the Global South: Voice, agency and citizenship

21.02.2024 | Cross-Country

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Cross-Country

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Voice and agency

Year of publication

2024

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Kate Pincock, Nicola Jones, Lorraine van Blerk, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda (eds.)

Young People in the Global South: Voice, Agency and Citizenship explores the spatial, relational, affective and material dimensions of adolescents’ and young people’s civic engagement and political participation in lower- and middle-income contexts. This textbook questions how the ‘everyday politics’ of exercising voice and agency is experienced at different scales, from the interpersonal to the global.

It explores how structural inequalities and marginalisation, as well as social norms and attitudes, shape how voice, agency and participation are expressed by diverse young people in particular contexts with unique histories. Contributing authors focus on the experiences of young people who are marginalised based on age, gender, sexuality, disability, citizenship status and geographical location. Together they show how ageing through adolescence enables or constrains agency and voice. Textbook features include case studies on Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, as well as reflective accounts authored by adolescents and young people themselves, and discussion questions.

Filling a key gap in the knowledge about the concerns and experiences of young people in contexts beyond the Global North, this textbook will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in the fields of childhood and youth studies, international development, social movements, human geography, sociology and comparative politics.

Suggested citation

Pincock, K., Jones, N., van Blerk, L. and Gumbonzvanda, N. (eds.) (2024) Young People in the Global South: Voice, agency and citizenship. Oxford: Routledge (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341666)

Table of contents

Chapter 1

Introduction: Adolescent and young people’s voice, agency and citizenship in the Global South

Chapter 2

Section overview : Research methods to explore young people's voice, agency and civic engagement

Chapter 3

Measuring adolescent voice and agency: An overview of quantitative and mixed-methods approaches

Chapter 4

Empowerment in the age of Covid-19: A mixed-methods study of voice and decision-making on four continents

Chapter 5

Giving voice to children and adolescents in Chile: Lessons from the participatory research Mosaic approach

Chapter 6

Youth contribution: Changing perceptions, changing roles exploring self, peer and public perceptions and changing roles and responsibilities of street-connected peer researchers and advocates in Kolkata during the Covid-19 pandemic

Chapter 7

Youth contribution: Our child-led research makes child activists' voices stronger in Brazil

Chapter 8

Youth contribution: How we are working to reduce teenage pregnancy in our community in Sierra Leone

Chapter 9

Youth contribution: ‘When a girl says something, I learn from her'

Chapter 10

Section overview: Listening to young people: Negotiating gendered perspectives on voice and agency

Chapter 11

Exercising agency on the periphery: Brazilian children and young people's understanding of agency and choice within contexts of inequality

Chapter 12

‘Children have the right to be controlled by their parents’: Children's voice in rural Sierra Leone

Chapter 13

Exploring the lived realities of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth in Bangladesh

Chapter 14

Youth contribution: When children and young people participate, it is possible to make a change

Chapter 15

Youth contribution: Reflections of a young feminist navigating the promise of sustainable development by world leaders

Chapter 16

Youth contribution: Pressure around sex in exchange for necessities is a setback in the fight against HIV among adolescent girls living in fishing communities in Kenya's Lake Victoria region

Chapter 17

Chapter Youth contribution: ‘Although the camp has changed as compared to the old times, I don't think it has changed enough’

Chapter 18

Section overview: Understanding young people's citizenship: Marginalisation, agency and the political imagination

Chapter 19

Street youth as human billboards – a paradox of performed street citizenship: Novel political participation by street youth in Ghana

Chapter 20

Informality, gender, and alternative citizenship: The lives and livelihoods of rural migrant youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Chapter 21

Youth movements and political protest: Opportunities and limitations of Ethiopia's Qeerroo movement in affecting transformative change

Chapter 22

Youth contribution: Negotiating everyday life in a Delhi slum as a Muslim girl

Chapter 23

Youth contribution: My revolution footprint in Zambia

Chapter 24

Section overview: Young people's voice, agency and participation ‘beyond borders’

Chapter 25

Patterning, enablers and barriers to adolescents' participation in protracted crises

Chapter 26

Adolescents mobilising in real life and online: The Bangladesh context

Chapter 27

Youth contribution: Youth climate leaders: What are the major barriers facing young people in climate action and how can these be overcome?

Chapter 28

Youth contribution: ‘Being part of the military wing gives you authority here in the camp’

Chapter 29

Youth contribution: ‘My mother does not allow me to go out of this camp’: Reflections on experiences as an internally displaced adolescent girl in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

Chapter 30

Section overview: Policies and programming for voice, agency and civic participation

Chapter 31

Supporting adolescent voice, agency and civic participation in the context of forced displacement: The role of the Makani/‘My Space’ programme one-stop centres in Jordan

Chapter 32

Negotiating meaningful dialogue: Scaffolding safe spaces for street-connected young people's participation

Chapter 33

Youth contribution: Youth citizenship and advocacy: Perspectives and challenges facing Peruvian youth leaders

Chapter 34

Youth contribution: ‘We give our views but our suggestions are not implemented’: Experiences of school parliaments in Batu, Ethiopia

Chapter 35

Youth contribution: The Khuluma Mentor programme: Young people's experiences of running a digital peer-led psychosocial support intervention in South Africa

Chapter 36

Final reflections and next steps for policy, programming and research Title