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Youth Politics in Urban Asia

Yi’En Cheng editor Sonia Lam-Knott editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:25th Sep '23

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Youth Politics in Urban Asiaexamines how young people’s political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and intangible ways. The book explores the ways in which urban development and urban governance in Asia enable or constrain young people’s citizenship, aspirations, and responses to a variety of socioeconomic and political issues in the region.

Informed by qualitative and ethnographic approaches, featuring locales ranging from Pune to Shanghai, the chapters broadly address three themes: the variegated ways in which youth politics is constituted and has manifested in Asian cities; the role of cities in shaping and mediating youth politics in Asia; and whether it is possible to conceive of youth politics across urban Asia as diverse and specific, but also structurally entangled. In examining how young people’s political performances and social actions are shaped by, and conversely, shape, Asian urban spaces, this collection advances a deeper understanding of the interplay of youth politics and urban environments. It will be an essential text for scholars and students interested in young people’s politics, urban studies, and social change in Asia.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Space and Polity.

ISBN: 9780367693688

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

150 pages