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This study uses the concepts of everyday politics and cultural resistance to explore how young people are experimenting with ‘free spaces’ in which to develop alternative ideas and practices within the food justice movement. Through a case study of the Spring Ridge Commons – a youth-generated free space – this research describes how youth are redefining relationships to place and to people by practicing alternative foodways like urban foraging; creating decommodified food sources; sharing skills and knowledge through peer-to-peer networks; building community through relationships of mutual support; and experimenting with non-hierarchical governance. Such practices have potential implications for child and youth care such as: reconnecting youth and adults through shared practice and meaningful work in “real life” politics and community building, reconceptualizing 'youth' and 'adult' such that both have greater access to acts of cultural production, and creating experiences of democracy in everyday life. / Graduate

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:32:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Ana Maria Moraes.pdf: 1040774 bytes, checksum: b9dc4b892a91fd181fe47a9ac8e69ec5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-05-11 / The present study aimed in identifying operational indicators of Young Activist Network project involving two groups of children ages 9 to 12 years old; the groups Young Activist and the Juventude Ativa. This study is part of an educational program that uses digital applied-technology as tool for developing events related to youth activism. This research was conducted in the community-based technology centers Juventude Interativa Social Lab and Telecentro Padre Joseph Alan Black located at Jardim Antartica in the north side of Sao Paulo city. This study is a qualitative research that uses the action research metodology (Hart). The proposed work approached digital inclusion as a mean to achieve social inclusion while attempts to overcome the digital gap on the fluency of the computer language and knowledge in building community-assets. Juventude Ativa group developed a workshop based on citizenship and environmental education and the Young Activist workshop had the foundation of Roger Hart s participation, theory of technological fluency (Resnick), citizenship (Pina) and other categories related from social aspects that emerged from Vygostky´s scope. Data collected were qualitative only, which were analyzed in two categories as follows; the Pina procedure for citizenship and Hart s participation and technological fluency with Resnick procedure. Our results support the development of youth activism actions using different models/focus. The action research cycle and the development of youth activism mediated by the use of digital technology was not developed in the Environmental Education Workshop by the Juventude Ativa group, but it was developed at the Young Activist Network Workshop using bottom-up model. Although, there was an obvious gain in their learning process using digital technology, the lack of technological fluency still exists causing a gap, which was well noticed in both workshops/ community technology centers. / O presente trabalho analisou a operacionalização dos projetos Rede de Jovens Ativistas e Juventude Ativa, através do desenvolvimento de ações de protagonismo juvenil. Foram desenvolvidas duas oficinas com 18 jovens de 9 a 12 anos ocorridas nos centros de tecnologia comunitária Laboratório Social Juventude Interativa e Telecentro Padre Joseph Alan Black situados no bairro do Jardim Antártica, zona norte da cidade de São Paulo. Esta é uma pesquisa qualitativa que utiliza da metodologia da pesquisa-ação (Hart) e realizou uma análise de dados de acordo com o modelo misto. A inclusão digital foi debatida através dos conceitos de uso da tecnologia para a inclusão social e da brecha digital gerada pela falta da fluência tecnológica, sendo associada esta temática ao protagonismo juvenil. As categorias previamente selecionadas para a análise dos dados foram cidadania (Pina), participação (Hart) e fluência tecnológica (Resnick) e outras relacionadas ao aspecto social emergiram da leitura dos dados tais como a leitura realizada do aspecto social sob a ótica de Vygotsky. Os resultados obtidos corroboram para o desenvolvimento de ações de protagonismo juvenil sob diferentes enfoques/modelos, onde o ciclo da pesquisa-ação não foi evidenciado na oficina de educação ambiental e na da Rede de Jovens Ativistas ocorreram algumas etapas. Conclui-se neste trabalho que apesar de ter havido um aprimoramento no uso das tecnologias digitais, a brecha digital gerada pela falta de fluência tecnológica continuou a existir nas duas oficinas realizadas em decorrência de problemas, tais como: o analfabetismo, pouco tempo para utilizar as tecnologias digitais. As ações de protagonismo juvenil só foram evidenciadas na oficina da Rede de Jovens Ativistas de acordo com um modelo bottom-up .

Contributing to the literature on the Muslim experience post-9/11, the purpose of this study was to engage with a group that is often talked about, but not with: Muslim youth. Using an integrative anti-racist and anti-colonial approach with an emphasis on a spiritual way of knowing, this study gives voice to young Muslim activists in Toronto who have made the choice to “do something”. The study aims to understand what motivates these young activists, particularly in the context of post-9/11 Islamophobia, with the goal being to challenge stereotypical perceptions of Muslims, while contributing to the body of knowledge that aims to disrupt dominant notions of what “Canadian” identity is. The following analysis helps answer this question, which includes the role of spirituality, the attachment to Canadian identity and the desire to educate. Key challenges and what these youth prescribe for Canada’s future are also discussed.

Contributing to the literature on the Muslim experience post-9/11, the purpose of this study was to engage with a group that is often talked about, but not with: Muslim youth. Using an integrative anti-racist and anti-colonial approach with an emphasis on a spiritual way of knowing, this study gives voice to young Muslim activists in Toronto who have made the choice to “do something”. The study aims to understand what motivates these young activists, particularly in the context of post-9/11 Islamophobia, with the goal being to challenge stereotypical perceptions of Muslims, while contributing to the body of knowledge that aims to disrupt dominant notions of what “Canadian” identity is. The following analysis helps answer this question, which includes the role of spirituality, the attachment to Canadian identity and the desire to educate. Key challenges and what these youth prescribe for Canada’s future are also discussed.

Youth of color are routinely dehumanized and treated as objects both in schools and in society. The “banking method” approach to teaching and stringent zero tolerance policies that are prevalent in low-income schools predominantly populated by youth of color serve to push youth out of school and pull them into the school-to-prison pipeline. When students do not meet their school’s standards, the institutional gaze is fixed disapprovingly on the child and the family. The history of segregation and institutionalized oppression that led to a legacy of inadequate and culturally irrelevant schooling and a poor quality of life for communities of color is erased. For the children who grow up in such environments, a historical silence makes it difficult if not impossible to make sense of their present-day conditions and the changes they are witnessing in their communities. People Organized in the Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER) is an organization that focuses on issues of environmental, economic, and social justice, and strives to facilitate youth empowerment through their Young Scholars for Justice (YSJ) summer program. The youth of color in the program are positioned as knowledgeable researchers and historical actors in their community. The Chicana feminist epistemology of PODER’s staff members creates a nurturing and family-like environment for the youth, which has a significant impact on the females, and enables youth to utilize personal experiences to develop a structural analysis of oppression. As youth acquire a historical conocimiento of East Austin, they also learn about organized resistance to oppression vis-à-vis environmental justice campaigns. In doing so, a spiritual activism blossoms in the youth that is born from their wounds of oppression and rooted in a cultural and historical awareness of their community. The youth engage in a cycle of praxis as their spiritual activism mobilizes them against injustices and ushers in their transformation into subjects. Through participant observation and interviews, I weave together a critical case study of the YSJ program that is informed by the metamorphosis I experienced after participating in the program. / text

The voices, perspectives and experiences of girls and young women in history, political and civic education remain rare, and those of girls of color are even rarer still. This dissertation reports on the results of a qualitative study exploring girls’ perspectives on and experiences of citizenship in the Toronto area. Through the use of document analysis, semi-structured interviews; and photovoice, this study suggests that the girls easily identify traditional gendered expectations in their families, schools and in the society at large. At the same time, the girls often make deliberate choices to defy these expectations, carve out their own paths, and serve as advocates for gender equality, social justice and engaged citizenship. This study focuses on the voices of girls and the ways in which concepts of gender enhance, shape and inhibit civic action within schooling. Despite an increased emphasis on education for active citizenship in education more broadly, this study provokes serious questions about what girls are learning about their roles in society and how concepts of gender affect the ways young people understand and enact their citizenship roles. There are new fields of research in the areas of youth civic engagement, citizenship education, feminist and girlhood studies, all of which informed my understanding of these ‘citizen-girls’, however they still often remain separated and inadequately consider the intersections of multiple identity factors as well as the relationship between individual agency and the societal structures that construct dominant values. This study has important implications for educators and policymakers, suggesting a need for more spaces and opportunities both within the classroom, and outside the school, for girls and boys to critically engage with the messaging they receive about gender, democratic participation and citizen engagement. Furthermore, these girls’ experiences also suggest that we must broaden our definition of citizenship and civic participation in order to better reflect the myriad new forms of citizen expression being used by girls and young people in modern societies today.

The voices, perspectives and experiences of girls and young women in history, political and civic education remain rare, and those of girls of color are even rarer still. This dissertation reports on the results of a qualitative study exploring girls’ perspectives on and experiences of citizenship in the Toronto area. Through the use of document analysis, semi-structured interviews; and photovoice, this study suggests that the girls easily identify traditional gendered expectations in their families, schools and in the society at large. At the same time, the girls often make deliberate choices to defy these expectations, carve out their own paths, and serve as advocates for gender equality, social justice and engaged citizenship. This study focuses on the voices of girls and the ways in which concepts of gender enhance, shape and inhibit civic action within schooling. Despite an increased emphasis on education for active citizenship in education more broadly, this study provokes serious questions about what girls are learning about their roles in society and how concepts of gender affect the ways young people understand and enact their citizenship roles. There are new fields of research in the areas of youth civic engagement, citizenship education, feminist and girlhood studies, all of which informed my understanding of these ‘citizen-girls’, however they still often remain separated and inadequately consider the intersections of multiple identity factors as well as the relationship between individual agency and the societal structures that construct dominant values. This study has important implications for educators and policymakers, suggesting a need for more spaces and opportunities both within the classroom, and outside the school, for girls and boys to critically engage with the messaging they receive about gender, democratic participation and citizen engagement. Furthermore, these girls’ experiences also suggest that we must broaden our definition of citizenship and civic participation in order to better reflect the myriad new forms of citizen expression being used by girls and young people in modern societies today.

En la actualidad las movilizaciones sociales han adquirido importancia en América Latina, el Perú no ha sido la excepción, ya que en noviembre del 2020 se realizaron marchas en contra del gobierno de Manuel Merino. Los protagonistas fueron los jóvenes peruanos, ya que movilizaron a las personas por medio de sus redes sociales y lograron marchas nacionales masivas a pesar de las restricciones sociales que existían por el Covid19. El presente proyecto tiene como propósito analizar el rol que tuvo twitter en la participación de jóvenes en las marchas realizadas en Perú. Para ello se retoman las discusiones sobre redes sociales y activismo juvenil y Twitter y movimiento sociales en autores como Castell, Pleyers y Casero. Como estrategia metodológica se propone un estudio cualitativo basado en análisis de contenido y encuestas. / Currently, social mobilizations have acquired importance in Latin America, Peru has not been the exception, since in November 2020 there were marches against the government of Manuel Merino. The protagonists were young Peruvians, as they mobilized people through their social networks and achieved massive national marches despite the social restrictions that existed due to Covid19. The purpose of this project is to analyze the role that Twitter played in the participation of young people in the marches held in Peru. For this, the discussions on social networks and youth activism and Twitter and social movement are retaken in authors such as Castell, Pleyers and Casero. As a methodological strategy, a qualitative study based on content analysis and surveys is proposed. / Tesis