Youth Agency Research Articles

Revival of Nautanki through the agency of north Indian youth to achieve planetary sustainability

Revival of Nautanki through the agency of north Indian youth to achieve planetary sustainability

UTILIZATION OF CETHO TEMPLE FOR RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES

According to the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 5 of 1992 concerning Cultural Heritage Objects, Cetho Temple was considered a dead monument, so it cannot be used for religious activities by Hindus. The discourse had changed since the issuance of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 11 of 2010 concerning Cultural Heritage. Nevertheless, in its implementation, regulations have been needed for the interest of regulating the utilization of Cetho Temple as a national level of cultural heritage. In this regard, the problems in this study are: (1) How are the licensing arrangements of utilization of Cetho Temple for religious activities, both by the government of Republic of Indonesia and the government of Karanganyar Regency? (2) What are the benefits of licensing the utilization of Cetho Temple for Hindus and the community around the location of Cetho Temple? This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. Research data collection is done through literature review, in-depth interviews, and observation. The results showed that the Government of Karanganyar Regency since 2005 has given permission to Hindus to use the temple as a place of religious ceremony. The ceremonies that are held include: Galungan, Kuningan, Tawur Agung Kesanga, and Mondosiyo. As a consequence of the implementation of the local regulations, at Cetho Temple there is a division of management authority between the Agency of Tourism Youth and Sports of Karanganyar Regency and the Office of Cultural Heritage Conservation of Central Java. The Agency of Tourism Youth and Sports of Karanganyar Regency manages tourists who come to Cetho Temple, especially for ticket sales arrangements. The Office of Cultural Heritage Conservation of Central Java manages the conservation activity at the temple, which is financed using the state budget. The utilization of Cetho Temple as a place of religious ceremony for Hindus will actually enliven tourism activities.

Jamming power: Youth agency and community‐driven science in a critical technology learning program

AbstractIn dialogue with science education and learning sciences research, in this article we develop a disciplinary‐specific view on youth and community agency for community‐based technology education. Cultivating agency is a central principle in our design and empirical study of the Young People's Race, Power, and Technology Program (YPRPT), a program designed to engage youth in critical inquiry about the technologies impacting their local communities. In this article, drawing from our multiyear partnership with a community‐based youth organization, we examine how agency was supported and constrained as a function of the practices we engaged in as a research team committed to participatory and justice‐centered education. Our findings illustrate ways that the emergence and enactment of agency, at both individual and community levels, works to interrupt, subvert, and creatively “jam” systems of power. We argue that cultivating agency in community‐driven science and technology learning requires an honest reckoning with the deeply entrenched racial and economic oppression in the United States. We contend that it is equally essential to commit to learning from, co‐designing with, and working in solidarity alongside the youth and communities that are most impacted by technologies that mediate our experiences—toward unveiling, resisting, and reimagining their powerful roles in our collective lives.

Be my boss: Migrant youth and the contradiction of hope labour on Kuaishou

This article explores the platformisation of a popular short-video platform Kuaishou and its impact on Chinese migrant youth. Based on 4 years of field observations, this study examines how Kuaishou’s platformisation process has paradoxically empowered and constrained the agency of migrant youth through the construction of ‘hope labour’. This hope labour seeks to benefit from Kuaishou’s attention economy at the expense of growing uncertainty and precarity. In particular, with the intervention of the state and fierce market competition, Kuaishou’s operation is moving towards a Douyin model to attract more urban youth, resulting in less diversity and more uniformity. This article illustrates how the joint forces of the market and the state push the platforms towards increased homogeneity. It shows how Kuaishou configures a digital assembly line for migrant youth, reproducing the precarious hope that everyone can become his or her boss.

Penglipuran Village Festival IX 2022: A Cultural Festival at The Cleanest Village in The World

The Vice Regent of Bangli, I Wayan Diar, officially closed The Penglipuran Village Festival IX 2022 on Wednesday evening, 14 December 2022. The closing ceremony of the six days festival was centered at the Penglipuran Village Hall, Bangli. The head of the Bangli Sub-District, the Bangli Regency Tourism and Culture Officer, the Bangli Regency Education and Youth Agency officer, the competition winners, and the local community attended the event. The Penglipuran Village Festival IX 2022 was an event in Penglipuran Tourism Village, Kubu Subdistrict, Bangli Regency. It was a village festival encompassing various activities and competitions, such as cultural parades, exhibitions, Balinese dance competitions, performing arts, talk shows, Megibung, yoga, and other mass activities. Penglipuran residents strongly hold their ancestor’s values to preserve their customs and philosophy of living. For instance, the folk conserves the old bamboo forest north of their village, maintaining the traditional architecture. Penglipuran Village has become one of Indonesia's pioneers of successful tourism villages, even internationally recognized by various tourism organizations. In early 2016, Penglipuran Village in Bali, Giethoorn Villages in the Netherlands, and Mawlynnong Village in India have named the cleanest villages in the world. The successful Penglipuran Village Festival IX was expected to be a trajectory point for tourism recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic. Especially as an epicenter for tourism promotion in Bali and Bangli particularly. With the theme of Resurrecting the spirit of environmental conservation, the organizer looked forward to raising the morale of ecological preservation.

Youth Agency in Peacebuilding

AbstractMore than 600 million young people today live in economically and environmentally fragile contexts. Scholarly literature on the interconnections between these young people and religion has often portrayed them as prone to radicalization and drawn to violent extremism. Such framings, however, render invisible their potential as agents for positive change. In this article, we take a step back to consider more basic questions about the socio‐political significance of youth leadership in (inter)religious contexts for the cultivation of peace. In particular, we focus on youth, religion, and religious representations of insider and outsider “others.” In this article, we report on the youth‐focused programme Enemy, Stranger, Neighbor, Friend, aiming to contribute to understanding the complexities that youth working in conflict prevention, informal peace education, and interreligious work face and the contributions they can make.

Recognizing Everyday Youth Agency: Advocating for a Reflexive Practice in Everyday International Relations

AbstractThis article intervenes in the ongoing discussion of Everyday international relations (IR). It draws on the discourse of epistemic injustice to explore the discussions of emerging research on everyday childhood. The article draws on a series of research visits, between 2017 and 2019, along the so-called Balkan Route attending to the emerging influence of children in the Greek Reception and Identification Centre, on the island of Samos. The article references the emerging discourses of “field” research within the discipline of IR, noting the dynamic nature of such ventures and the role of a reflexive practice therein. Using open-ended interviews, research diaries, and author observations, the article provides a detailed description of the role that education nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on the island play in supporting child refugees, while opening up spaces of education, solidarity, and community building. It argues for the inclusion of children, as agents, within the discussions of Everyday IR to redress the erasure of children’s lived experience within everyday IR. The potential role of adults in this process is acknowledged and the article puts forward an alternative understanding of the adult/child relationship paying attention to the dynamics of power, the need for reflexive and critical listening, to hear the stories and ideas of children and young people, on their own terms aware that the article itself falls prey to some of the articulated challenges. It hopes to ignite a conversation beyond the (potential) central role for children in Everyday IR imagining their role within knowledge production.

“At School, It's a Completely Different World”: African Immigrant Youth Agency and Negotiation of Their Adaptation Processes in US Urban Schools

African immigrant youth adaptation processes in US schools remain under-researched. Using qualitative case study, this article examines West African immigrant middle- and high-school youth adaptation experiences in US urban schools. Findings show that racialized experiences, English proficiency levels, and multilingualism affected social relationships (both supportive and conflicted) with families, communities, peers, and school contexts. These experiences crucially influenced African immigrant youths’ adaptation processes. Participants drew from community resources and developed resilience skills to negotiate acculturative stressors when seeking friendship, belonging, and an integrated sense of identity in their new home. Recommendations for further supporting positive adaptive strategies are discussed.

The right to the school: urban schooling, place-based education, and youth agency at the intersection of gentrification

ABSTRACT The ways in which urban schooling intersects with gentrification in US cities is an understudied yet growing reality. Within this wider reality, even less is known about how youth resist gentrifying agendas that seek to displace them from learning in rebranded cities. Drawing from an ethnographic study on urban place-based education at a high school situated amid efforts to rebrand the downtown of a southwestern city, the author proposes the right to the school as an extension to the right to the city. The right to the school is a framework to trace and understand how youth geographies intersect with (a) localized struggles over urban public schooling in the context of gentrification and (b) the formation of youth agency amid those struggles. To illustrate the right to the school, general findings and student vignettes are provided.

Fashion, Thresholds, and Borders

Fashion, Thresholds, and Borders

Systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis: multimodal composing and civic agency of multilingual youth

ABSTRACT In our civic engagement afterschool program in the southeast of the United States, our youth and adult participants used a wide range of modalities including mapping, rapping, drawing, and performance to construct and convey their unique visions of school and community spaces. The purpose of this methodological paper is to explore systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis (SF MDA) as a potential resource to gauge the effectiveness of such humanizing and multimodal spaces in positioning youth as civic leaders. Data collected for this study included curriculum materials, descriptive field notes, and video recordings of the multimodal processes of focal youth across five program modules. Informed by an SF MDA perspective, our multimodal transcriptions illustrate how youth participants engaged in an intersemiotic complementarity of modalities and languages to share their insights and enact civic identities.

Youth agency in times of crisis: Exploring education and conflict in Mali through participatory visual approaches with youth

Education in Mali is constrained by a multi-dimensional crisis that restricts education and makes life difficult. Young people are particularly affected. In this article, we use the preliminary findings of the Participatory Research on Education and Agency in Mali (PREAM) project that was implemented in the conflict-affected regions of Mopti and Segou, to discuss youth agency in situations of crisis and how participatory visual methods can be used both as a way of ascertaining adolescents’ perception of their agency and also to contribute to the development of youth agency. More specifically, we use data from six workshops using participatory visual methods (PVMs) to illustrate that young people have something valuable to say about education, agency, and conflict and that PVMs can be an effective way of engaging adolescents in dealing with such topics. Preliminary findings from the research suggest that although participating young people are in an asymmetrical position in relation to power with the adults around them, they nonetheless have a good understanding of their situation and demonstrate agentic behavior that is both adaptative and projective. Girls illustrated how generational order from child to grandmother and gender social norms can constrain agency. At the same time, they used their agency to expose and contest, in the cellphilms they produced, the unfair division of labor in their society. During the workshops, young people were eager to share their stories and wanted their artwork to communicate their concerns to the adults around them. In this article, we argue that it is important for adolescents in Mali to have a voice on questions of education and agency and we discuss why education actors and policy makers should pay attention to the perspectives of young people even (and especially) in times of crisis.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Justice-Centered Computing Education, Part 2

This introduction welcomes readers to the second volume of an ACM TOCE special issue on justice-centered computing education. Here we reflect on the ways both the first volume and this current volume expand our notions of justice. More specifically, the first volume explored topics such as intersectionality, transformational justice, intercultural computing, ethnocomputing, translanguaging, socially responsible computing, and institutional theory. This volume continues the conversation with its focus on decolonization, racial literacy with white computing educators, youth agency and voice in computing and media production, learning pathways focused on justice issues for a rural Mexican American youth, and Universal Design for Learning in CS education. We end with discussing the important issues, topics, and voices that are missing from these two volumes, and potential future directions for dialogue in our community.

Intergenerational aspirations for educational and employment success of refugee youth

ABSTRACT While studies on refugee-background students in school contexts have been prolific, research of this population in higher education or post-tertiary education is still emergent. The paper attends to this gap by drawing on the narratives of five refugee-background young adults who are undertaking Australian higher education or have completed university studies. An interpretive analysis of their life-story interviews is drawn from Appadurai’s concept of ‘voice’ as a tool to understand the intergenerational nature of ‘aspiration’. We illustrate the heterogeneous ways their resourcefulness is activated in pursuit of their aspirations, and the enabling role parental aspirations play in realising their pathways. It offers new insights on the enabling role refugee parents play to support their children’s pathway into higher education. It also highlights the significance of individual refugee youth agency in navigating on-going challenges to attain their personal aspirations through education. We argue that the concept of inclusive education should contain a strength-based view of refugee students that positions them as aspirational individuals who are actively engaging in complex forms of negotiation, adaptability and resistance. Further research into inclusive education for increased social inclusion, incorporating the intergenerational aspirations of both refugee youth and their parents is clearly warranted.

Testing Reciprocal Associations between Parenting and Youth’s Motivational Resources of Career Decision-Making Agency during the Postsecondary Transition

Parents are central figures in youth's career decision-making processes. One of their key roles is to foster youth's career decision-making agency by supporting their motivational resources-of autonomy and competence. While the findings on parent-driven effects (how parenting behaviors predict youth's agency) are well documented, little is known about the opposite direction-child-driven effects (how youth's agency predicts parenting behaviors)-and the bidirectionality, particularly during postsecondary transitions. To address this gap, the current study examined (1) reciprocal linkages between mothers' and fathers' parenting behaviors (i.e., need support and control) and youth's agency (i.e., autonomy and competence) and (2) whether such linkages are moderated by the parent's gender and timing. Participants were 642 French-Canadian youths (54% girls; Mage = 14.2) who annually reported on parenting behaviors and career decision-making agency for 5 years, from Secondary 3 to 2 years postsecondary. For analysis, random-intercept cross-lagged panel models were estimated to disentangle the between- and within-family processes. The results showed that youth's career decision-making competence develops in reciprocal transactions with parental need support in an upward spiral, while autonomy development is primarily driven by need support. Limited evidence was found for the moderating effects of parents' gender and youth's transition periods. Preregistration: the present study was preregistered (the study design, hypotheses, and target analyses). The preregistration can be found in https://osf.io/c5hak . Any deviations from the preregistration can be found in the Online Supplemental Materials.

Structural Racism and Its Influence On Sexual and Reproductive Health Inequities Among Immigrant Youth.

This community-based participatory research study explores the influence of structural racism on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) inequities among immigrant, including refugee, youth. We conducted interviews with emerging youth and youth service providers living in two communities in Massachusetts. Our results detail three major themes illustrating how structural racism influences SRH inequities among immigrant youth: (1) lack of culture-centered SRH supports for recently immigrated youth; (2) immigration enforcement and fear impacting access to adolescent SRH (ASRH) education and services; and (3) perceived ineligibility related to tenuous legal status as a barrier to accessing ASRH services. Conclusions: Findings illustrate the importance of rooting sexuality education curricula in a culture centered framework that recognizes local cultural understandings, acknowledges structural constraints faced by young people, and prioritizes youth agency and voice when engaging in this work. Raising awareness of SRH resources available to immigrant youth may expand access for this underserved population.

When WE See Us: Commentary on Black Adolescent Research by Black Male Youth Activists.

Research viewed exclusively through the lenses of adults, even good-meaning adults, in some respects can strip young people of their agency to create knowledge about their world and their conditions. Given this reality, this commentary departs from traditional forms of research about adolescents to make spaces for Black male adolescents and young men to make sense of, and highlight their own connection to, research. It is our hope that scholars and practitioners who are interested in supporting Black youth will gather insights from our experiences, and hopefully use them to elevate the agency of Black youth in their schools and communities.

Legacy and Rupture: The Political Learning of Young Left-wing Basque Nationalists in the Post-ETA Period

The article examines ways in which the left-wing nationalist movement in the Basque Country has offered a framework of opportunity for the construction of activist youth agency. It also identifies transformations in youth activist practices over the last decade, following the cessation of ETA´s armed activity. Based on in-depth interviews, we set out to reconstruct the evolution of the political learning and trajectories of youth from the Basque Nationalist left during this period. The analysis of these young peoples’ narratives allows us to understand some of the meanings that they attach to their current political practices. With respect to inherited political traditions, continuity was manifest in the existence of enduring dispositions favourable to counter-hegemonic activism. Changes were manifest in the adaptation of these dispositions to new political conditions through progressively more individualized forms of political action, connected to emerging contemporary agendas.

Youth Goals? Youth Agency and the Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract Youth participated in the negotiations for the Sustainable Development Goals (sdg s) as an official United Nations constituency. And yet, so far, there has been no study of their participation in these negotiations. This is even more surprising given that the 2015 sdg s are now under their review stage just as youth are emerging, through protests, as key players in sustainable development governance. In order to improve knowledge of youth as global actors, this article embraces an innovative ‘youth agency’ perspective in global politics. Borrowing from youth studies, such a perspective relies on three research questions, on the (i) identity of youth actors, (ii) their claims, and (iii) their impact at the global level. Methodologically, the article mostly relies on a qualitative assessment of youth experiences in negotiation processes through interviews of youth actors. It reveals the subjectivities of youth identity at the global level and the limits of their achievements within formal negotiation processes.

PARTISIPASI POLITIK PESERTA SEKOLAH KADER PENGAWAS PARTISIPATIF DALAM PEMILU DAN PEMILIHAN 2024

Political participation is the activity of individuals or groups that participate actively in politics by electing state leaders directly or indirectly, as well as inuencing government policies. The Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) decision to invite youth to participate in quality democracy is an important breakthrough for the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu). This paper uses qualitative analysis and library methods to analyze secondary data by elaborating on relevant materials, both primary and secondary. The conclusion of this paper is that the Participatory Supervisory Cadre is an investment by the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) in youth as an effort to build hope for a better quality democracy in the general election. Furthermore, the political participation of the Participatory Supervisory Cadre (SKPP) participants in the context of the 2020 election has been proven by their role as reporters and initial information providers. This indicates that the Participatory Supervisory Cadre (SKPP) is well-versed in electoral regulations and has made a genuine contribution to electoral law enforcement.