Sarah Anne Rennick
Affiliated Researcher
Understanding the Political in Arab Youth Civic Engagement
Author
Editor
- Sarah Anne Rennick
Summary, in English
This collective volume contributes to the conceptual understanding of Arab youth and their relationship to politics by making explicit how civic engagement in seemingly ‘apolitical’ fields can be conceived as a form of political activism. Using the analytical tools of practice theory, ‘youth’ is reconceptualized as a generational practice of politics, meaning a ‘competent performance’ of shared knowledge and understandings of politics and the political, that informs their various forms of engagement. In conceiving of youth in these terms, the pieces here bring to the fore how youth comprehend and indeed dichotomize their action with ‘politics’.
Department/s
- Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
- MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
Publishing year
2022
Language
English
Publication/Series
Reassessing Activism and Engagement Among Arab Youth
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Transnational Press London
Topic
- Political Science
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-1-80135-118-8
- ISBN: 978-1-80135-117-1