Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis ― Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race

Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race offers critical perspectives on contemporary research and practice directed at young people across the global north and south. Drawing upon pedagogical, programmatic, and activist work with respect to challenging inequalities and injustices for young people, the authors interrogate the dominant discourses of sexuality, gender, race, class, age and other social categories. Emerging out of a Finnish-South African collaboration, this volume does not take a comparative approach but rather a transnational one by embracing the intersections of local and global knowledges. We draw on this transnational and transdisciplinary framework and these various contexts to generate a critique of mainstream theory and pedagogical practice, as well as to subvert and disrupt such research and practice so as to speak more directly to young people's agentic and activist engagements in social justice, specifically inequalities of class, race, gender, age, sexuality, ability, and health.

Tamara Shefer is Senior Professor of Women's and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

Jeff Hearn is Senior Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, based in Gender Studies, Orebro University, Sweden; Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK

Kopano Ratele is Professor in the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa, South Africa and researcher at the South African Medical Research Council.

Floretta Boonzaier is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.