When Students Protest

Judith Bessant; Analicia Mejia Mesinas; Sarah Pickard

doi:10.5771/9781786611840

Summary

Student political action has been a major and recurring feature of politics across the globe through the past century. Students have been involved in a full range of public issues, from anti-colonial movements, anti-war campaigns, civil rights and pro-democracy movements to campaigns against neoliberal policies, austerity, racism, misogyny and calls for climate change action. Yet student actions are frequently dismissed by political elites and others as ‘adolescent mischief’ or manipulation of young people by duplicitous adults. This occurs even as many working in governments, traditional media and educational organisations attempt to suppress student movements. Much of mainstream scholarly work has also deemed student politics as undeserving of intellectual attention. These three edited volumes of books help set the record straight.

Written by scholars and activists from around the world, When Students Protest: Universities in the Global South is the second in a three-volume study that explores university student politics in the global south. The authors document and analyse how generations of university and college students in the Global South responded to issues such as problems in their own universities as well as standing up against violent military dictatorships, human rights abuses, oppressive poverty, foreign interference and the effects of neoliberal austerity regimes. Contributors to this this volume also reveal repeated moves by states and institutions to stigmatise and suppress student political action while highlighting how those students developed new kinds of political action further demonstrating why this rich and complex global phenomena is worthy of more attention.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78661-182-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78661-184-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 152
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Language Complexity No access
2. Chapter Summaries: Student Protest Actions in the Global South No access
3. Notes No access
4. References No access
1. Where We Begin No access
2. What Happened? Phase 1 No access
3. Growing Pains—Difficulties of a Broader Politics No access
4. June’s Phase 2: Traces of Conservatism No access
5. From Anti-Politics to Conservative Politics: The Novelty of a Youth Conservative Movement No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Normalizing Protest and Shaping Politics No access
3. Demobilization and Political Disenchantment in Democratic Chile No access
4. Protest Waves and Policy Effects No access
5. The Normalization of Protests in Chile No access
6. Opening Up the Political Space No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Context: The National Assessment for Quality Education in Chile No access
3. The School Occupations against National Assessments No access
4. The Relationship between Policy and School Occupations during the “Cultural Clash” on Education No access
5. Conclusion: Student Activism and Educational Policy No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Student Power in Nigeria No access
3. Student Unions in Nigeria No access
4. Student Activism No access
5. Student Attitudes and Beliefs No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Historical Overview No access
3. The Right to Protest No access
4. Discipline and Containment: Institutional Responses No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Background No access
3. Securitized Responses to Younger Generation Tamil Activism No access
4. Countering “Terrorism” No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Mexican Politics in 2012: The Return of the Dinosaur No access
3. Emergence of Yo Soy 132: Young People and Political Participation No access
4. Social Media: Democratization of Information as a Means and an End No access
5. Democracy through Democratic Means No access
6. Media and Society Responses No access
7. Violent State Response to the #yosoy132 Movement No access
8. Hope and Disillusion from the Mobilizations No access
9. Lessons and Legacy No access
10. The Effects of #yosoy132 on National Politics No access
11. Conclusion No access
12. References No access
Index No access Pages 145 - 148
About the Contributors No access Pages 149 - 152