Helve, Helena; & Wallace, Calire; editors: - Youth, Citizenship and Empowerment

Aldershot [UK], Ashgate Publishing, (2001). orig.boards. 22x15cm, xvii,327 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 21 papers concerning Youth, Citizenship & Empowerment in Comparative Perspective; Citizenship & Power; Citizenship & Marginality; Citizenship, Values & Attitudes; New Actors, Networks, and Empowerment. Includes: R. Spannring; et al: "Civic Particpation among Young People in Europe"; J. Bynner "Criitcal Discussion: Empowerment or Exclusion?"; L. Horelli "Young People's Participation in Local Development: Lip Service or Serious Business?"; K. Paakkunainen "The Operative Contingency of Institutions & the Young Fortuna in the Risk Society"; M. Nylund "Mixed Motives of Young Nordic Volunteers"; S. Heath & L. Kenyon "Young Adults & Shared Household Living: Achieving Independence through the (Re)negotation of Peer Relationships"; L. Chisholm "Critical Discussion: From the Margins:The Darker Side of Empowerment"; T. Hilden "Skinheads: Masculinity & Violent Action"; T. Virtanen "The Racialisation of Youth Gangs: When Violence Turns into a Fight over Turf"; S. Näre "Economy of Emotions & Sexual Violence Against Adolescent Girls"; L. Suurpäa "Foreigners as Strategic Construction: Finnish Young People's Accounts of Immigrants"; H. Helve "Reflexivity & Changes in Attitudes & Value Strategies"; A. Svynarenko "National, Political & Cultural Identities of Youth: Tendencies in Post-Soviet Ukraine"; M. Rahman "The Globalisation of Childhood & Youth:New Actors & Networks in Protecting Street Children & Working Children in the South"; L. Machacek "Youth & Creation of Civil Society in Slovakia"; D.Everatt "From Urban Warrior to Market Sgement? Youth in South Africa 1990-