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Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency de Alison L. Gash

Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency

Autor Alison L. Gash, Daniel J. Tichenor
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 oct 2022

Observăm în Democracy's Child o analiză profundă a modului în care tinerii, deși adesea privați de dreptul de vot până la 18 ani, au fost în mod constant forțe motrice sau mize strategice în peisajul politic american. Această ediție de la Oxford University Press reîncadrează istoria politică a Statelor Unite, plasând copiii nu la periferie, ci în centrul transformărilor democratice. Autorii Alison L. Gash și Daniel J. Tichenor ne atrag atenția asupra unei dualități fascinante: tinerii ca agenți ai schimbării (precum în mișcările Dreamer sau Sunrise) și tinerii ca subiecți ai controlului statal, folosiți uneori ca monedă de schimb în politici de frontieră.

Cititorii familiarizați cu Growing Up America de Susan Eckelmann Berghel vor aprecia modul în care acest volum extinde analiza rolului tinerilor dincolo de perioada postbelică, oferind un cadru teoretic solid pentru a înțelege cum activismul actual, de la Black Lives Matter la Gay Straight Alliances, este înrădăcinat în decenii de organizare politică. Structura cărții integrează cazuri istorice, precum Cruciada Copiilor din Birmingham (1963), cu realități contemporane dure, demonstrând că 'copilăria' este o categorie politică la fel de influentă ca rasa sau clasa.

În contextul operei sale anterioare, Below the Radar, unde Alison L. Gash a explorat drepturile familiilor de același sex, Democracy's Child continuă să investigheze modul în care grupurile vulnerabile navighează sistemele juridice și politice. Dacă în lucrările trecute accentul cădea pe strategiile de politici publice, aici vedem o extindere către agenția politică directă a tinerilor, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care aceștia reușesc să forțeze dialoguri naționale despre justiție penală, avort sau mediu.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197581667
ISBN-10: 0197581668
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 6 b/w photographs
Dimensiuni: 217 x 146 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cercetătorii în științe politice și sociologie care doresc să înțeleagă dinamica puterii dincolo de procesul electoral. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care tinerii au modelat istoria SUA și cum identitățile lor intersectate influențează politicile publice actuale. Este o lectură despre reziliență, control și capacitatea tinerilor de a acționa ca agenți de transformare socială.

Despre autor

Alison L. Gash este cercetătoare în științe politice, cu un parcurs academic solid la University of California, Berkeley și Princeton University. Experiența sa vastă în litigii privind drepturile civile în Washington, DC și consultanța oferită Departamentului Muncii al SUA îi conferă o autoritate distinctă în analiza politicilor publice. Daniel J. Tichenor completează această expertiză prin studii asupra dinamicii puterii. Împreună, autorii aduc în Democracy's Child o rigoare academică dublată de o înțelegere practică a mecanismelor de control și agenție în democrație.

Descriere

A sweeping and innovative study that places young people at the heart of pivotal conflicts, decisions and transformations in American politics. Even though the voting age is 18, children in the United States are both crucial subjects and actors in democratic politics. Young people have been leveraged for important political causes again and again--from the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade in which civil rights leaders mobilized thousands of school kids in protest marches to the 2018 "family separation" policy in which Trump officials sacrificed migrant children as bargaining chips in its push for border control. In Democracy's Child, Alison L. Gash and Daniel J. Tichenor focus on the reciprocal relationship between children and politics by placing young people at the heart of pivotal conflicts, decisions, and transformations in American politics. From the March for Our Lives and Black Lives Matter, to Gay Straight Alliances and the Dreamer and Sunrise movements, they show that the prominence of young people as agents of change are unmistakable in contemporary political life. Yet, these movements reflect a long history of youth political mobilization and leadership, including Progressive Era labor organizing and 1960s civil rights and anti-war activism. Gash and Tichenor examine childhood as a potent category that combines with gender/gender identity, race, class, immigration status, or sexual orientation to produce powerful systems of privilege or disadvantage. Further, they argue that children also are crucial subjects of government and adult control, inspiring contention in nearly every realm of public policy, such as education, social welfare, abortion, gun control, immigration, civil rights and liberties, and criminal justice.A sweeping and innovative study, Democracy's Child reveals why the control, leveraging, and agency of young people shapes and defines our political landscape.

Recenzii

The book is a compelling argument for adults to pay more attention to the voices of youth and an affirmation to young people that they can make a difference.
Cynics and pessimists often overlook the important role that young people have played in U.S. politics. In Democracy's Child, Gash and Tichenor definitively show that this is a terrible mistake. The kids are more than alright—and the future of democracy depends on them.
This fascinating book broadly explores children's relationship to politics. The authors move beyond familiar narratives about how law and policy affect children to examine children as symbols for political movements and also to understand children as political agents. By centering children, the book helps us to rethink political agency. It renders visible important political acts by and around subjects who do not yet have full political membership in society.
Children organize some of the most powerful social movements worldwide. At the same time, they are often weaponized by adults waging their own wars over culture and politics. How can we do justice to the citizenship of children? Democracy's Child answers this pressing question, offering an innovative framing of children as subjects, icons, collateral and agents to illustrate the diverse facets of children's political lives. Through expertly curated storytelling and authoritative research, Gash and Tichenor guide readers toward a better understanding of how children experience and influence politics.
Young people are key to the future of our democracy, and yet, they are often rendered marginal to the study of American politics. In Democracy's Child, Gash and Tichenor offer a powerful framework to understand the role of children and young people in politics. In making their case for a more expansive view of why children and young people are central to democratic politics, the authors skillfully weave present-day illustrations, from school board fights and youth activism over gun control and immigrant rights, to historical examples from labor movements and the Civil Rights Movement. This is a masterfully written book, with an agenda-setting framework, and a call to action that should inspire scholarship and investments in young people's political agency for years to come.

Notă biografică

Alison Gash is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Oregon. Her research focuses on the substantive intersections of law and social policy and their capacity to both reify and reform systems of exclusion-particularly those affecting BIPOC, Queer, and low-income communities. She is the author of Below the Radar: How Silence Can Save Civil Rights (Oxford, 2015) as well as numerous articles on legal advocacy and collaborative governance published in Law & Social Inquiry, JPART, and a range of other peer-reviewed journals.She has received multiple awards for her teaching, research and social justice advocacy including the Christian Bay Award, the Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy and the Martin Luther King Award for Social Justice. Gash is a frequent public lecturer with One Day University and contributor to outlets, including Politico, Newsweek, Washington Monthly, Slate, Washington Post, Fortune, The Conversation, and National Public Radio.Daniel J. Tichenor is the Philip H. Knight Chair of Social Science and Wayne Morse Center Senior Fellow at the University of Oregon. A scholar of immigration policy, social movements, and political history, he has published nine books, including Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control and Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements and the Transformation of American Politics. His research awards include the American Political Science Association's Gladys Kammerer Award, Jack Walker Prize, Mary Parker Follette Award, Polity Prize, and Charles Redd Award. He has been a fellow at Princeton's School of Policy and International Affairs, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Abba Schwartz Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, a research scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, and was named to the inaugural class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2015. He has testified and provided expert briefings to Congress on immigration law andpolicy, and provided commentary and essays for National Public Radio, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Utne Reader, and The Nation.