When Students Protest

Judith Bessant; Analicia Mejia Mesinas; Sarah Pickard

doi:10.5771/9781786611789

Summary

Student political action has been a major and recurring feature of politics across the globe throughout 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 protest 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 government, 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: Secondary and High Schools is the first of a three-volume study. The authors document and analyse how generations of secondary and high school students in many countries have been thoughtful, committed and effective political actors and especially so over the past decade. This book also reveals moves by power holders to stigmatise, repress and even criminalise student political campaigns. While these efforts were sometimes successful, this volume shows that whether responding to problems within schools, or engaging the major public issues of the day, school activists have renewed and revived the political culture of their society, while also challenging long-held age-based prejudices.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78661-176-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78661-178-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 218
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. A Long History of Student Action No access
2. Student Protest in the Twenty-First Century No access
3. When School Students Protest No access
4. The Chapters in This Volume: When Students Protest in Secondary and High Schools No access
5. Notes No access
6. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Problem with “Theory” No access
3. Theorizing Student Protest No access
4. Student Protest: Adolescent Irrationality No access
5. Resource Mobilization Theory No access
6. Political Process Theory No access
7. New Social Movements No access
8. “The Political” No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. March for Our Lives No access
3. “School Strike 4 Climate” No access
4. Pupils, Students, and the Politics of (Mis)Recognition No access
5. Students Answering Back No access
6. Digital Capital and Protest No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1983–1990: Youth in Democracy and School Democracy No access
3. 1990–2001: Youth Politics and Autonomist Resistance No access
4. The Resurgence of Student Activism? Claims and Organizations in 2010–2018 No access
5. Future Directions for Research No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Theoretical Perspectives No access
3. Young People’s Leadership in Movement Moments No access
4. Methods and Data No access
5. The Walkout No access
6. Young People Claim Leadership of the Movement No access
7. Leadership as a Supportive Role No access
8. Collective Voice and Shared Leadership No access
9. Young People Value Leadership as “Giving Voice” to the Marginalized No access
10. Conclusion No access
11. Notes No access
12. References No access
1. Zero Tolerance Policies and Police in Schools No access
2. Student Resistance to Zero Tolerance No access
3. The Significance of Home No access
4. Personal Identities and Important Experiences No access
5. Personal and Political Growth No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Chiapas No access
3. Student Organizations, Collective Actions, and Social Movements No access
4. Networks and Processes That Encourage or Inhibit Collective Actions No access
5. Encounters and Disagreements Between Groups No access
6. The Other Social Networks and the Connective Actions No access
7. Repressive Processes No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Australian Students and Climate Change Activism No access
3. Student Climate Activists Negotiating Citizenship No access
4. Negotiating Citizenship in the School Strike 4 Climate No access
5. Answering to Justice No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Student Protest No access
3. A Note on Method No access
4. Student Protest and Public Responses No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Cultural Scene, Social Movements, and Digital Media No access
3. From the Anti-National Education Movement to Occupy Headquarters No access
4. Setting up the Movement Scene Online No access
5. Public Engagement with the Movement Scene No access
6. Extending the Scene Beyond the Protest Site No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Theoretical Framework and Chapter Outline No access
3. Research Field and Empirical Material No access
4. Student Occupations and Its Repertoire of Political Action No access
5. Student Occupations and Political Demands No access
6. The Joint Development of a Project for the Future No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Motive of the Protest No access
3. Global Prospect of Youth and Student Protest No access
4. Five Days of Protest: July 31, 2018, to August 3, 2018 No access
5. Demands of the Student Protest No access
6. Popular Support for the Student Movement No access
7. Responses by the State No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. References No access
Index No access Pages 209 - 214
About the Contributors No access Pages 215 - 218