Student Politics and Protests: International Perspectives
Student Politics and Protest: International Perspectives explores a number of common themes, including: the focus and nature of student politics and protest; whether students are engaging in fundamentally new forms of political activity; the characteristics of politically engaged students; the extent to which such activity can be considered to be ‘globalised’; and societal responses to political activity on the part of students.
Student Politics and Protest: International Perspectives does not seek to develop a coherent argument across all its chapters but, instead, illustrate the variety of empirical foci, theoretical resources and substantive arguments that are being made in relation to student politics and protest.
International in scope, with all chapters dealing with recent developments concerning student politics and protest, this book will be an invaluable guide for Higher Education professionals, masters and postgraduate students in education, sociology, social policy, politics and youth studies. The book includes the following chapters, including a chapter on student politics in Africa co-written by Manja Klemencic and me, based on our work and that of our authors published in the book Student Politics in Africa: Representation and Activism (2016) which can be purchased from ABC or downloaded for free from African Minds.
1. Student Politics and Protest: an Introduction.
2. Campaigning for a Movement
3. Student Struggles and Power Relations in Contemporary Universities.
4. Neoliberal Discourses and the Emergence of an Agentic Field: the Chilean Student Movement
5. Affinities and Barricades.
6. Student Politics and the Value(s) of Public Welfare
7. The Politics of Higher Education Funding in the UK Student Movement 1996-2010
8. Student Power in 21st Century Africa
9. Students’ Associations
10. ‘If Not Now, Then When? If Not Us, Who?’ Understanding the Student Protest Movement in Hong Kong
11. Student Mobilization during Turkey’s Gezi Resistance: From the Politics of Change to the Politics of Lifestyle
12. Network Formation in Student Political Worlds
13. Conclusion
