Youth Sociopolitical Action: Costs, Benefits, and Supporting Sustainable Sociopolitical Practices
A special issue of Youth (ISSN 2673-995X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 13498
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adolescent development; increasing opportunities for youth voices; understanding how young people contribute to their communities and how their engagements shape their development; sociopolitical stress and coping; substance misuse prevention; youth voice; action civics; civic interventions
Interests: adolescent health and health inequalities; sociopolitical stress and coping; civic development; youth participatory action research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many adolescents and young adults are involved in a broad range of sociopolitical actions, from participating in large social justice movements to taking individual actions to fight for equality in their communities. Research from many fields of study has documented benefits of such critical civic engagement for communities and individuals. At the same time, the landscape for sociopolitical action is increasingly complex; the world is more interconnected, young people have many opportunities to be “online,” and politics are more polarized. It is increasingly apparent that there are also physical and mental health costs to sociopolitical action oriented toward social justice. Importantly, the costs and benefits are not equally distributed and depend on the different systems of oppression and privilege young people face based on their identities, their contexts, and how their identities and contexts interact. Societies and local communities benefit from the voices and engagement of diverse young people, perhaps especially those for whom the costs of sociopolitical action are higher based on their identities and contexts.
This Special Issue thus calls for papers that examine links between sociopolitical action and healthy development. We seek contributions that will help create a multi-disciplinary and multi-level conversation about how best to support young people in justice-oriented sociopolitical action that is constructive, sustainable, and health-promotive. Preference will be given to articles that simultaneously consider costs and benefits of social justice-oriented civic engagement for adolescent and young adult health; that consider how best to support young people in their civic engagement; and that draw on empirical studies, longitudinal data, and/or understudied samples.
Dr. Parissa Jahromi Ballard
Dr. Lindsay Till Hoyt
Dr. Christopher M. Wegemer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sociopolitical action
- civic engagement
- social justices adolescents and young adults
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