Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction: The state and prospects of youth and citizenship, Helena Helve and Claire Wallace. Youth, Citizenship and Empowerment in Comparative Perspective: Youth, citizenship and empowerment, Claire Wallace; Civic participation among young people in Europe, Reingard Spannring, Claire Wallace and Christian Haerpfer. Citizenship and Power: Critical discussion: empowerment or exclusion?, John Bynner; Young people’s participation in local development: lip service or serious business?, Liisa Horelli; The operative contingency of institutions and young fortuna in the risk society, Kari Paakkunainen; Mixed motives of young Nordic volunteers, Marianne Nylund; Young adults and shared household living: achieving independence through the (re)negotiation of peer relationships, Sue Heath and Liz Kenyon. Citizenship and Marginality: Critical discussion: from the margins - the darker side of empowerment, Lynne Chisholm; Skinheads - masculinity and violent action, Tarja Hilden; The racialization of youth gangs: when violence turns into a fight over a turf, Timo Virtanen; Economy of emotions and sexual violence against adolescent girls, Sari Näre; Foreigners as a strategic construction: Finnish young people’s accounts of immigrants, Leena Suurpää. Citizenship, Values and Attitudes: Critical discussion: modern or postmodern youth?, Gill Jones; Reflexivity and changes in attitudes and value structures, Helena Helve; Young people’s values and their lifestyles, Sakari Karvonen and Ossi Rahkonen; National, political and cultural identities of youth: tendencies in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Arseniy Svynarenko. New actors, Networks and Empowerment: Critical discussion: globalization and empowerment, Pat Allatt; The globalization of childhood and youth: new actors and networks in protecting street children and working children in the South, Mojibur Rahman; Youth creation of civil society in Slovakia, Ladislav Machácek; From urban warrior to market segment? Youth in Sou
