Book Review: Youth Active Citizenship in Europe: Ethnographies of Participation by Shakuntala Banaji and Sam Mejias

IF 4.1 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION International Journal of Press-Politics Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI:10.1177/19401612221092994
Jakob Ohme
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In a time where youth-led movements like Fridays-for-Future make the news, it is easy to think that European youth has found their role as citizens in a society. Ultimately, the way young citizens act in the political system they have been socialized in, is an important indication about the state of this political system. But while societies at large mostly care about the question if youth is active, researchers from disciplines like political science, psychology, sociology, cultural and media studies, and communication science have an ongoing interest in the question, how young citizens act politically and what these acts entail. This book reintroduces these questions by focusing on Youth Active Citizenship in Europe. The edited volume gathers ethnographic studies on young political activists. In the beginning, it problematizes the ‘binaries of civic participation’. The editors Shakuntala Banaji and Sam Mejias argue that questions about what is ‘political’ or what counts as ‘active’ have been answered unsatisfactory by large-scale survey research’s attempt to categorize the rich field of youth engagement. The goal of this volume, hence, is to go beyond these categories and to provide insights into how young Europeans become active in political matters. It approaches the question of what active citizenship today entails from a variety of angles and theoretical schools: What are motivations of being active? What is the role of emotions for participation? How diverse are youth movements and what are the chances of an activist burnout? For readers of International Journal of Press and Politics, Chapter 6 on “Hybridity in the Media and Political Strategies of Leftist Youth Organisations” by Alena Macková Macková, Sam Mejias and Jakub Macek may be of greatest interest, as it illustrates the long-known struggle of balancing communication strategies between offline and digital activities. There are several things to like about this book: First, the cases of ethnographic studies undertaken in eight countries—the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Sweden and the UK— are illustrative of youth engagement to an extent that quantitative research will never be. The rich ethnographic work, Book Review
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书评:《欧洲青年积极公民:参与的民族志》,作者:Shakuntala Banaji和Sam Mejias
在像“未来星期五”这样由青年领导的运动成为新闻的时代,人们很容易认为欧洲青年已经找到了自己作为社会公民的角色。归根结底,年轻公民在他们被社会化的政治体系中的行为方式,是这个政治体系状态的重要标志。但是,尽管整个社会大多关心年轻人是否活跃的问题,但来自政治学、心理学、社会学、文化和媒体研究以及传播学等学科的研究人员对年轻公民的政治行为以及这些行为所涉及的问题一直感兴趣。本书通过关注欧洲青年积极公民身份,重新介绍了这些问题。编辑后的这本书汇集了对年轻政治活动家的民族志研究。一开始,它对“公民参与的二元性”提出了质疑。编辑Shakuntala Banaji和Sam Mejias认为,大规模调查研究试图对青年参与的丰富领域进行分类,但对什么是“政治”或什么是“积极”的问题的回答并不令人满意。因此,本卷的目标是超越这些类别,深入了解欧洲年轻人如何在政治事务中变得活跃。它从各种角度和理论流派探讨了当今积极的公民身份意味着什么的问题:积极的动机是什么?情绪在参与中的作用是什么?青年运动的多样性如何?活动家倦怠的可能性有多大?对于《国际新闻与政治杂志》的读者来说,Alena MackováMackov、Sam Mejias和Jakub Macek撰写的关于“左翼青年组织的媒体和政治策略的混合”的第6章可能是最感兴趣的,因为它说明了长期以来在线下和数字活动之间平衡沟通策略的斗争。这本书有几点值得喜欢:首先,在捷克共和国、爱沙尼亚、德国、希腊、意大利、葡萄牙、瑞典和英国这八个国家进行的民族志研究的案例说明了青年人的参与程度,这是定量研究永远无法做到的
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. The Journal is interested in theoretical and empirical research on the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors. Special attention is given to the following subjects: the press and political institutions (e.g. the state, government, political parties, social movements, unions, interest groups, business), the politics of media coverage of social and cultural issues (e.g. race, language, health, environment, gender, nationhood, migration, labor), the dynamics and effects of political communication.
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