Young People, Radical Democracy and Community Development

PART I Young people: radical democracy and community development


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


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 - Roisin O'Gorman





PART III Acts of citizenship?


Community development, empowerment and youth participation in social-housing neighbourhoods in France - Guelcin 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 convivencia: 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 Luekuesl ue