Young People in the Global South

Kate Pincock is a Researcher on the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme at ODI and a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Her research interests include critical theories of agency; age, gender and sexualities; participatory methodologies; and postcolonial work on displacement, borders and mobility. She is the author of The Global Governed (2020) and co-editor of Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Gender, Displacement and Social Inequalities (2021).

This book explores the spatial, relational, affective, and material dimensions of young people's civic engagement and political participation in lower/middle-income contexts and will interest academics, students and practitioners of youth studies, international development, social movements, human geography and sociology.

SECTION I Research methods to explore young people's voice, agency and civic engagement; Introduction: Adolescent and young people's voice, agency and citizenship in the Global South; Section overview: Research methods to explore young people's voice, agency and civic engagement; Measuring adolescent voice and agency: An overview of quantitative and mixed-methods approaches; Empowerment in the age of Covid-19: A mixed-methods study of voice and decision-making on four continents; Giving voice to children and adolescents in Chile: Lessons from the participatory research Mosaic approach; Youth contribution: Changing perceptions, changing roles exploring self, peer and public perceptions and changing roles and responsibilities of street-connected peer researchers and advocates in Kolkata during the Covid-19 pandemic; Youth contribution: Our child-led research makes child activists' voices stronger in Brazil; Youth contribution: How we are working to reduce teenage pregnancy in our community in Sierra Leone; SECTION II Listening to young people: Negotiating gendered perspectives on voice and agency; Youth contribution: 'When a girl says something, I learn from her'; Section overview: Listening to young people: Negotiating gendered perspectives on voice and agency; Exercising agency on the periphery: Brazilian children and young people's understanding of agency and choice within contexts of inequality; 'Children have the right to be controlled by their parents': Children's voice in rural Sierra Leone; Exploring the lived realities of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth in Bangladesh; Youth contribution: When children and young people participate, it is possible to make a change; Youth contribution: Reflections of a young feminist navigating the promise of sustainable development by world leaders; Youth contribution: Pressure around sex in exchange for necessities is a setback in the fight against HIV among adolescent girls living in fishing communities in Kenya's Lake Victoria region; SECTION III Understanding young people's citizenship: Marginalisation, agency and the political Imagination; Youth contribution: 'Although the camp has changed as compared to the old times, I don't think it has changed enough'; Section overview: Understanding young people's citizenship: marginalisation, agency and the political imagination; Street youth as human billboards - a paradox of performed street citizenship: Novel political participation by street youth in Ghana; Informality, gender, and alternative citizenship: The lives and livelihoods of rural migrant youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Youth movements and political protest: Opportunities and limitations of Ethiopia's Qeerroo movement in affecting transformative change; Youth contribution: Negotiating everyday life in a Delhi slum as a Muslim girl; SECTION IV Young people's voice, agency and participation 'beyond borders'; Youth contribution: My revolution footprint in Zambia; Section overview: Young people's voice, agency and participation 'beyond borders'; Patterning, enablers and barriers to adolescents' participation in protracted crises: A case study of adolescents' mobility and safe access to public spaces in the Gaza Strip; Adolescents mobilising in real life and online: The Bangladesh context; Youth contribution: Youth climate leaders: What are the major barriers facing young people in climate action and how can these be overcome?; Youth contribution: 'Being part of the military wing gives you authority here in the camp'; SECTION V Policies and programming for voice, agency and civic participation; Youth contribution: 'My mother does not allow me to go out of this camp': Reflections on experiences as an internally displaced adolescent girl in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia; Section overview: Policies and programming for voice, agency and civic participation; Supporting adolescent voice, agency and civic participation in the context of forced displacement: The role of the Makani/'My Space' programme one-stop centres in Jordan; Negotiating meaningful dialogue: Scaffolding safe spaces for street-connected young people's participation in Kenya; Youth contribution: Youth citizenship and advocacy: Perspectives and challenges facing Peruvian youth leaders; Youth contribution: 'We give our views but our suggestions are not implemented': Experiences of school parliaments in Batu, Ethiopia; Youth contribution: The Khuluma Mentor programme: Young people's experiences of running a digital peer-led psychosocial support intervention in South Africa; Final reflections and next steps for policy, programming and research