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Bessant, J.: Making-up People: Youth, Truth and Politics

Bessant, J.: Making-up People: Youth, Truth and Politics Journal of Applied Youth Studies (2021) 4:83–88 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-021-00035-7 BOOK REVIEW Bessant, J.: Making-up People: Youth, Truth and Politics London & New York: Routledge, 2021 Eve Mayes Received: 15 February 2021 / Revised: 15 February 2021 / Accepted: 17 February 2021 Published online: 4 March 2020 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. part of Springer Nature 2021 In 2018 and 2019, mass numbers of school-aged students walked out of school to protest against governmental inaction on climate change—in a movement known variously as Fridays for Future, Youth Strike for Climate and School Strike 4 Climate. Sociologists of youth were caught ‘on the backfoot’ (Wood 2020, p. 2) by this movement’s rapid transnational affective contagiousness. In many ways, the School Strikes provided a large-scale example of young people’s re-invention of political participation (Vromen et al. 2015) ‘by any media necessary’ on foot and online (Jenkins et al. 2016). The strikes, however, received polarised responses from politi- cians, media reporters and online pundits; Greta Thunberg elicited ‘enormous support and admiration from supporters and vitriolic abuse from others’ (Bessant 2021,p.3). The significant value of Judith Bessant’slatestbook, Making-Up People: Youth, Truth and Politics (2021), is in its historical sociological http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Applied Youth Studies Springer Journals

Bessant, J.: Making-up People: Youth, Truth and Politics

Mayes, Eve
Journal of Applied Youth Studies , Volume 4 (1) – Mar 4, 2021
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Journal of Applied Youth Studies (2021) 4:83–88 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-021-00035-7 BOOK REVIEW Bessant, J.: Making-up People: Youth, Truth and Politics London & New York: Routledge, 2021 Eve Mayes Received: 15 February 2021 / Revised: 15 February 2021 / Accepted: 17 February 2021 Published online: 4 March 2020 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. part of Springer Nature 2021 In 2018 and 2019, mass numbers of school-aged students walked out of school to protest against governmental inaction on climate change—in a movement known variously as Fridays for Future, Youth Strike for Climate and School Strike 4 Climate. Sociologists of youth were caught ‘on the backfoot’ (Wood 2020, p. 2) by this movement’s rapid transnational affective contagiousness. In many ways, the School Strikes provided a large-scale example of young people’s re-invention of political participation (Vromen et al. 2015) ‘by any media necessary’ on foot and online (Jenkins et al. 2016). The strikes, however, received polarised responses from politi- cians, media reporters and online pundits; Greta Thunberg elicited ‘enormous support and admiration from supporters and vitriolic abuse from others’ (Bessant 2021,p.3). The significant value of Judith Bessant’slatestbook, Making-Up People: Youth, Truth and Politics (2021), is in its historical sociological

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