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Unruly kids? Conceptualizing and defending youth disobedience
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Mattheis, Nikolas |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Abstract | Taking the ‘Fridays for Future’ movement as its starting point, this article conceptualizes and defends youth disobedience, understood as principled disobedience by legal minors. The article first argues that the school strike for climate can be viewed as civil disobedience. Then, the article distinguishes between various forms of youth disobedience (according to whether they involve child-specific issues or actions). Building on the democratic rationale for civil disobedience, the remainder of the article argues that there is a special justification for youth disobedience. To show this, it argues that children are wrongfully excluded from political participation and that principled law-breaking can be an important remedy to this exclusion. The upshot is that adults should engage seriously and leniently with youth disobedience. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1474885120918371?download=true |
| Starting Page | 466 |
| Ending Page | 490 |
| Page Count | 25 |
| ISSN | 14748851 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 21 |
| Journal | European Journal of Political Theory (EPT) |
| e-ISSN | 17412730 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474885120918371 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2020-04-21 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2020 |
| Subject Keyword | resistance Fridays for Future democratic participation school strikes Children youth civil disobedience |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations |
