Youth, Citizenship and Empowerment

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction: the state and prospects of youth and citizenship, Helena Helve and Claire Wallace. Part 2 youth, citizenship and empowerment in comparative perspective: youth, citizenship and empowerment, Claire Wallace civic participation amoung young people in Europe, Reingard Spannring, Claire Wallace and Christian Haerpfer. Part 3 Citizenship and power: critical discussion - empowerment or exclusion?, John Bynner young people's participation in local development - lip service or serious business?, Liisa Horelli the operative contingency of institutions and the young fortuna in the Risk society, Kari Paakunainen mixed motives of young Nordic volunteers, Marianne Nylund young adults and shared household living - achieving independence through the (re)negotiation of peer relationships, Sue Heath and Liz Kenyon. Part 4 Citizenship and marginality: critical discussion - from the margins - the darker side of empowerment, Lynne Chisholm skinheads - masculinity and violent action, Tarja Hilden the racialization of youth gangs - when violence turns into a fight over a turf, Timo Virtanen economy of emotions and sexual violence afainst adolescent girls, Sari Nare foreigners as a strategic construction - Finnish young people's accounts of immigrants, Leena Suurpaa. Part 5 Citizenship, values and attitudes: critical discussion - modern or postmodern youth?, Gill Jones reflexivity and changes in attitudes and value structures, Helena Helve young people's values and their lifestyles, Sakari Karvonen and Ossi Rahkonen national, political and cultural identities of youth - tendencies in post-soviet Ukraine, Arseniy Svynarenko. Part 6 New actors, networks and empowerment: critical discusion - globalization and empowerment, Pat Allatt the globalization of childhood and youth - new actors and networks in protecting street children and working children in the south, Mohjibur Rahman youth and creation of civil society in Slovakia, Ladislav Machacek from urban warrior to market segment? yoputh in South Africa 1990-2000, David Everatt.