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Sarah Pickard: Politics, Protest and Young People

Sarah Pickard: Politics, Protest and Young People Journal of Applied Youth Studies (2020) 3:181–183 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-020-00015-3 BOOK REVIEW London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 501 pages Julius Elster Received: 16 July 2020 / Revised: 2 August 2020 / Accepted: 7 August 2020 / Published online: 20 August 2020 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 The important premise that generalistic, homogeneous and deterministic tendencies should be avoided when portraying youths threads its way through Sarah Pickard’s lucidly written Politics, Protest and Young People. Pickard shares this premise with the growing body of youth studies literature, which increasingly aims to understand youths in heterogeneous ways and dispel the myths about young people as apathetic. The same cannot be said about the approach adopted by large sections of the British media and polity, especially with respect to understanding young people’s political participation. Pickard’s long-term research project not only does shed light on how the mainstream media and the political elite repeatedly neglect the rich plurality of political engagement across the youth demographic, but also seeks out an alternative approach to the dominant one. Divided into 15 chapters, the book’s interdisciplinary perspective weaves together several thematic and empirical strands, where both qualitative and quantitative analyses are employed (inspired by Einstein’s maxim that ‘not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Applied Youth Studies Springer Journals

Sarah Pickard: Politics, Protest and Young People

Elster, Julius
Journal of Applied Youth Studies , Volume 3 (2) – Apr 20, 2020
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Journal of Applied Youth Studies (2020) 3:181–183 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-020-00015-3 BOOK REVIEW London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 501 pages Julius Elster Received: 16 July 2020 / Revised: 2 August 2020 / Accepted: 7 August 2020 / Published online: 20 August 2020 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 The important premise that generalistic, homogeneous and deterministic tendencies should be avoided when portraying youths threads its way through Sarah Pickard’s lucidly written Politics, Protest and Young People. Pickard shares this premise with the growing body of youth studies literature, which increasingly aims to understand youths in heterogeneous ways and dispel the myths about young people as apathetic. The same cannot be said about the approach adopted by large sections of the British media and polity, especially with respect to understanding young people’s political participation. Pickard’s long-term research project not only does shed light on how the mainstream media and the political elite repeatedly neglect the rich plurality of political engagement across the youth demographic, but also seeks out an alternative approach to the dominant one. Divided into 15 chapters, the book’s interdisciplinary perspective weaves together several thematic and empirical strands, where both qualitative and quantitative analyses are employed (inspired by Einstein’s maxim that ‘not

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