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Dr Hernán Cuervo & Dr Ana Miranda (Eds.)   The book will be published in the series Perspectives on Children and Young People by Springer. As an initial step, we are releasing a call for abstracts (200 words) for potential chapters. For more information about this edited book, please find here a flyer: Call for…

Revue Jeunes et Société   The Revue Jeunes et Société is an international French-language peer reviewed journal (double blind), which publishes papers in French in all areas of youth studies and sociology of youth twice a year. The journal welcomes non-thematic papers in French throughout the year: http://rjs.inrs.ca/index.php/rjs. We currently have an open thematic call for…

Annual Review of Social Work/Social Pedagogy in Austria   Deadline for abstracts: July 15, 2017 Deadline for full papers: Dec 31, 2017 Read more: https://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=207860

S. Pickard, J. Bessant (Eds.) ISBN 978-3-319-58249-8 Palgrave Macmillan, 2018   This book provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways. The authors, who include academics and activists, challenge claims that young people are apolitical, apathetic and living up to the ‘me generation’…

H. Cuervo, J. Wyn, J. Fu, B. Dadvand and J.C. Bilinzozi ISBN: 978 0 7340 5369 5 (print); 978 0 7340 5370 1 (electronic) Melbourne Graduate School of Education, 2017   The three studies that inform this report contribute to this body of work by exploring three spaces of belonging for young people: online communities…

Youth Editors: Christoph H. Schwarz, Anika Oettler Publication date: Fall 2017   The uprisings of 2011 challenged many predominant concepts of ‘youth’ in the MENA region. Before, young people were often merely discussed as a ‘youth bulge’ – a demographic, quantitative problem, even a potential terrorist threat. In other stereotypical representations, youths and young adults…

Mariano Longo & Maurizio Merico (Eds) ISSN 2035-4983 Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 8, n. 3 Padova University Press   This special issue of the Italian Journal of Sociology of Education is devoted to the presentation of case studies aimed at analysing “Knowledge workers’ educational and professional trajectories” in Southern Italy. In particular,…

Deadline: 5 December 2016   Guest Editors: Charalambos Tsekeris and Lily Stylianoudi In recent years, many social scientists have explored young people’s lives and transitions, considering such matters as social exclusion, disempowerment and disenchantment, as well as promoting effective interventions, strategies and innovations through policy. These have taken account of issues of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability,…

Susan Booysen (ed.) EAN: 978-1-86814-985-8 (978-1-86814-987-2; 978-1-86814-986-5) Wits University Press, 2016    FeesMustFall: Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa dissects the influence of the days of the 2015 student that shook the government and would be repeated in 2016. The book’s reflections represent a snapshot in time, reflecting on a segment of the overall…

Hernán Cuervo ISBN 978-1-137-50515-6 – 978-1-137-50514-9 Palgrave Macmillan, 2016    “With a level of breadth and depth that is rare in educational research, Cuervo insightfully weaves together three bodies of  literature—namely, rural schooling, neoliberalism and education, and social justice—to foreground this important new study about the state’s neglect of rural schooling in Australia. Scholars and…