The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Rita Faire
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Core ◽  
High School Reading

Lualhati Bautista's Dekada '70 (1983) is a mainstay of Philippine high school reading. It tells the story of Amanda Bartolome and her five sons during the titular decade as they live under the shadow of Martial Law. And while youth activism is at the core of Dekada's narrative, existing scholarship on the book does not adequately reflect this. This article begins the work of addressing this gap by identifying schemas of Filipino children's and young people's participation in the socio-political sphere through the characters of the Bartolome brothers and reading them through the lens of Diane M. Rodgers's typology of children as social movement participants.

Were Women and Young People the Heart of the Pinochet Regime? Rise and Decline of the Secretariats

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-583
Author(s):  
Verónica Valdivia Ortiz de Zárate
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Southern Cone ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Political Evolution ◽  
Political Project ◽  
The Government

Abstract This article focuses on the political role of the Secretariats of Women and Youth, which were created by Augusto Pinochet’s military regime, in an effort to unearth their underlying rationale. It departs from previous interpretations of these organizations that privilege the influence of foreign models in their formation, highlighting instead factors internal to Chile and seeking a more complete understanding of the dictatorship’s actions in regard to the secretariats. This analysis portrays the Chilean secretariats as different from their counterparts in other Southern Cone dictatorships. The trajectories of the secretariats followed the Chilean regime’s political evolution, as they served different goals and strategies and changed course as the government developed a more clearly defined political project, along with policies to carry such a project out.

Children and Young People as Activist Authors

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-21
Author(s):  
Niall Nance-Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Involvement ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Children And Young People

Children and young people, including individual activists such as Greta Thunberg and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, as well as larger groups such as March for Our Lives and It's Not Your Fault, are raising their profile and advancing their political agendas through social media, protests, and speeches. This article examines the ways in which their arguments draw on three forms of ethical underpinning: equity claims to the same rights as adults, assertions of unique rights or protections based on child status, and projections into a future adulthood to demand protection of the environment. While some adults have welcomed and lauded young people's political involvement, others object to the very idea of young people's presence in the political arena. Youth activism has been met with expressions of concern over supposed naïveté or vulnerability, as well as contempt and even aggression toward children who would disrupt an adult-dominated hierarchy through their action, speech, and writing

Something Gleaming

Theoria ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (165) ◽  
pp. 92-117
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Leebaw
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Common Concern ◽  
The Way

What kinds of lessons can be learned from stories of those who resisted past abuses and injustices? How should such stories be recovered, and what do they have to teach us about present day struggles for justice and accountability? This paper investigates how Levi, Broz, and Arendt formulate the political role of storytelling as response to distinctive challenges associated with efforts to resist systematic forms of abuse and injustice. It focuses on how these thinkers reflected on such themes as witnesses, who were personally affected, to varying degrees, by atrocities under investigation. Despite their differences, these thinkers share a common concern with the way that organised atrocities are associated with systemic logics and grey zones that make people feel that it would be meaningless or futile to resist. To confront such challenges, Levi, Arendt and Broz all suggest, it is important to recover stories of resistance that are not usually heard or told in ways that defy the expectations of public audiences. Their distinctive storytelling strategies are not rooted in clashing theories of resistance, but rather reflect different perspectives on what is needed to make resistance meaningful in contexts where the failure of resistance is intolerable.

Intersectionality, Black Youth and Political Activism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Hill Collins
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
The Political ◽  
And Behavior

For youth who are Black, Indigenous, female, or poor, coming of age within societies characterized by social inequalities presents special challenges. Yet despite the significance of being young within socially unjust settings, age as a category of analysis remains undertheorized within studies of political activism. This essay therefore draws upon intersectionality and generational analyses as two useful and underutilized approaches for analyzing the political agency of Black youth in the United States with implications for Black youth more globally. Intersectional analyses of race, class, gender, and sexuality as systems of power help explain how and why intersecting oppressions fall more heavily on young people who are multiply disadvantaged within these systems of power. Generational analysis suggests that people who share similar experiences when they are young, especially if such experiences have a direct impact on their lives, develop a generational sensibility that may shape their political consciousness and behavior. Together, intersectionality and generational analyses lay a foundation for examining youth activism as essential to understanding how young people resist intersecting oppressions of racism, heteropatriarchy, class exploitation, and colonialism.

Party and Professionals. The Political Role of Teachers in contemporary China.

1984 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Pepper ◽  
Gordon White
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Role Of Teachers

Toward Increased Judicial Activism: The Political Role of the Supreme Court.

1983 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 730
Author(s):  
Robert J. Harris ◽  
Arthur Selwyn Miller
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
The Political ◽  
Judicial Activism ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Supreme Court

II. The Political Role of the Parlement of Paris, 1715–23

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-200
Author(s):  
J. H. Shennan
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Parlement Of Paris

The most recent biographer of Montesquieu has written:…the similarity between the ideas of the former president a tnortier and those of the parlements is sometimes striking.…The king, they admit, is the legislator and the fount of justice. The parlements, however, are the repositories of his supreme juris-diction. To remove it from them is to offend the laws of the state and to overthrow the ancient legal structure of the kingdom.…This tradition of the parlements inspired and was inspired by the political doctrine of Montesquieu; and when the President writes of the monarchy of his own day…as being the best form of government that men have been able to imagine, it is monarchy supported by this tradition which he has in mind.

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