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Aidan Craney: Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Aidan Craney: Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement Journal of Applied Youth Studies (2022) 5:343–347 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-022-00083-7 BOOK RE VIE W Aidan Craney: Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement Canberra: ANU Press, 2022, xiii + 236 pp Patrick Vakaoti Received: 5 October 2022 / Revised: 5 October 2022 / Accepted: 7 October 2022 / Published online: 18 October 2022 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022 The Pacific has a very youthful population, its median age sitting at 22.6  years (Clarke and Azzopardi 2019). This characteristically labels the region as experienc- ing a youth bulge; a demographic concept where young people proportionately com- prise a large segment of the population. A youth bulge is often viewed negatively, a situation where young people are referred to as a ‘ticking time-bomb’. It is there- fore unsurprising that such a view, accompanied by high youth unemployment and crime, attracts academic curiosity and the attention of policy experts. Aidan Craney, author of the book Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands, reminds us of this reality and the temptation to jump in and ‘save and solve’. In the book Craney does the oppo- site, he takes a rather neutral stance and states that “young people have the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Applied Youth Studies Springer Journals

Aidan Craney: Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Vakaoti, Patrick
Journal of Applied Youth Studies , Volume 5 (4) – Dec 1, 2022
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Journal of Applied Youth Studies (2022) 5:343–347 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-022-00083-7 BOOK RE VIE W Aidan Craney: Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement Canberra: ANU Press, 2022, xiii + 236 pp Patrick Vakaoti Received: 5 October 2022 / Revised: 5 October 2022 / Accepted: 7 October 2022 / Published online: 18 October 2022 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022 The Pacific has a very youthful population, its median age sitting at 22.6  years (Clarke and Azzopardi 2019). This characteristically labels the region as experienc- ing a youth bulge; a demographic concept where young people proportionately com- prise a large segment of the population. A youth bulge is often viewed negatively, a situation where young people are referred to as a ‘ticking time-bomb’. It is there- fore unsurprising that such a view, accompanied by high youth unemployment and crime, attracts academic curiosity and the attention of policy experts. Aidan Craney, author of the book Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands, reminds us of this reality and the temptation to jump in and ‘save and solve’. In the book Craney does the oppo- site, he takes a rather neutral stance and states that “young people have the

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