Youth, Transitions and Social Justice: Researching Spaces of Social Action

by Charlotte McPherson (Contribution by), Samantha S. Sithole (Contribution by), Gretchen M. Walters (Contribution by), Frank Matose (Contribution by), Lambert Simango (Contribution by)

Overview

This book considers young people’s conceptions and experiences of social justice through key transitions in their lives. It examines the factors shaping and constraining young people’s actions for a fairer society in a time when real world and virtual social spaces have become fragmented.

Considering questions of race, gender and class the collection includes globally diverse research perspectives, including those from Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Brazil. The book offers inspiring insights on the approaches researchers, youth practitioners and young people are finding to challenge the injustices they face and be a positive force in promoting social justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529238730
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	10/23/2025
Series:	Spaces and Practices of Justice
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256

About the Author

Nathan Manning is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is particularly interested in examining how citizens understand their relationship to politics and the role that emotions and feelings may play in people’s experience of ‘the political’.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Brian McShane and Michael Whelan

Part I: Contemporary Youth Transitions in Space and Place

1. Issues of Class, Space and Haunting in Young People’s Experiences and Perceptions of Social (In)Justice in Scotland - Charlotte McPherson

2. Youth and Conservation in the Greater Kruger National Park Landscape - Samantha S. Sithole, Gretchen M. Walters, Frank Matose and Lambert Simango

3. Education Pioneers in Indonesia and Kenya: Refugee Youth Inhabiting Educational Spaces in Sites of Transit and Encampment - Michelle J. Bellino and Realisa D. Masardi

4. Young Women’s Right to the City: Collective Action Within Skateboarding and Surfing Communities - Letícia O. Galvão

5. Young People Who Take Drugs, Queering ‘The Rave’, and Intersectional Social (In)justices - Karenza Moore and Zafi Moore

6. ‘Safe’ Masculinities: The Performance of Young Masculinities in Public Space - Brian McShane and Michael Whelan

Part II: Activism, Practice and Social Justice

7. Participatory Futures? A Model to Engage Young People as Co-researchers and Shape Local Health Policy - Nathan Manning, Brian D. Loader and Amanda Mason-Jones

8. Reappropriation of Public Space as Social Justice: Youth and Batucada - Elvira Molina-Fernández, Jose-Luis Parejo and Elisabet Moles-López

9. ‘Connect, Challenge and Change’: Using Digital in Nonformal Education to Combat the Double-Helix of Exclusion - Paul Adams and James Dellow

10. An Exploration of the Issues Faced by Young People from Racially Minoritized Communities During Their Education That Have Implications for Their Progression to Higher Education - Kane Allen, Karan Vickers-Hulse and Sarah Whitehouse

11. Social Justice in Youth Work: A Dialogue Between Sustainable Development Goals and the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Trudi Cooper, Harry Shier, Tim Corney, Hilary Tierney and Jamie Gorman

Conclusion: Towards Social Justice - Brian McShane and Michael Whelan