Citizen Youth: Culture, Activism, and Agency in a Neoliberal Era

This book, now in its second edition, examines youth citizenship and activism in the twenty-first century. When young people are encouraged to enact ‘active citizenship’ through education and popular culture, and yet also risk arrest when engaged in certain forms of dissent, how do we account for the contradiction? Kennelly gets to the center of these issues as she explores the challenges of being young and politically engaged. In the new edition, she brings her original rich ethnography of...