This book examines the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa, and how it impacts young people’s civic and political participation today. The edited volume analyses the extent to which young people influence public policies, social, cultural and economic structures, and how on the other hand these young people are influenced by the same structures. It focuses on the politics and agency of youth, and how they impact social change and continuity in the Middle East and North Africa. The book will be of great value to students, scholars and researchers interested in Youth Movements, MENA, Comparative Politics and Political Economy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Mediterranean Politics.

This handbook highlights innovative and affect-driven feminist dialogues that inspire social work practice, education, and research across the globe. The editors have gathered the many (at times silenced) feminist voices and their allies together in this book which reflects current and contested feminist landscapes through 52 chapters from leading feminist social work scholars from the many branches and movements of feminist thought and practice. The breadth and width of this collection encompasses work from diverse socio-political contexts across the globe including Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North America, Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. The book is divided into six parts as follows: • Decoloniality, Indigeneity and Radical Theorising • Feminist Social Work in Fields of Practice • Academy and Feminist Research • The Politics of Care • Allyship, Profeminisms and Queer Perspectives • Social Movements, Engaging with the Environment and the More-than-Human The above sections present the diverse feminisms that have influenced social work which provides a range of engaging, informative and thought-provoking chapters. These chapters highlight that feminists still face the battle of working towards ending gender-based violence, discrimination, exploitation and oppression, and therefore it is urgent that we feature the many contemporary examples of activism, resistance, best practice and opportunities to emphasise the different ways feminisms remain central to social work knowledge and practice. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work and related disciplinary areas including the social and human sciences, global and social politics and policy, human rights, environmental and sustainability programmes, citizenship and women’s studies.

"There's a kid in your youth ministry who hasn't somehow been affected by crisis. There's not a youth worker on the planer who won't benefit from the principles and practices in this book." -Kara Powell, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Youth and Family Ministry at Fuller Seminary Because when it comes to crisis, it's not a matter of if, but when Anyone who stays in youth ministry very long will encounter significant crises. Family break-ups, substance abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, cutting, suicide, gun violence... But without proper and immediate care, crises like these cause years of emotional pain and spiritual scarring in students. Rich Van Pelt and Jim Hancock want to help you prevent that from happening. Through their experience and expertise, you'll learn how to: - Respond quickly and effectively to crisis - Balance legal, ethical, and spiritual outcomes - Forge preventive partnerships with parents, schools, and students - Bring healing when the damage is done When crises happen-and they will, ready or not-there are practical steps you can take. Van Pelt and Hancock provide field-tested advice and specific, biblically based guidance for each stage of crisis. Keep this book on hand as the go-to resource when you need it most.

"This book examines the place and agency of youth in the contemporary phase of Egypt's political transformations, in the context of narrating and analyzing the relationship between political economy, authoritarianism, and citizens' daily struggles"--

Documents the waves of protest that spread across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession.

Introduction. History, biography, endurance and empathy : an introductory (thank you) note to the book / Magda Nico and Ana Caetano -- Challenging the structure/agency binary : youthful culture, labour and embodiments / Steve Threadgold, David Farrugia and Julia Coffey -- Subjective understandings of young people's agency : concepts, methods and lay frames of reference / Sarah Irwin -- The interplay of structure and agency in the school-to-work transition / Ingrid Schoon -- The go-between. young-ish trajectories through a life course agency-structure lens / Magda Nico -- Redefining the link between structure and agency : the place of time / Carmen Leccardi -- Structure and agency : an old couple in a new era of prolonged education-to-work transitions amid rising inequalities and declining life chances / Ken Roberts -- Making a living in a provincial hometown : locality as a structuring landscape for agency / Sanna Altonnen -- Exploring the connection between structure and agency within the context of the young Greek crisis generation / Athanasia Chalari -- Fighting adversity with different weapons : youth, structure and agency in Portugal during the crisis / Nuno De Almeida Alves -- Certainties and control in the lives of young men : stories from three research projects / John Goodwin, Henrietta O'Connor and Laurie Parsons -- Structure and agency in life stories : how to become a gang member / Carles Feixa -- Reflexivity in late modernity : understanding young lives in the context of social change / Daniel Woodman and Amy Vanderharst -- What are the chances? Coping with contingent events in youth / Ana Caetano -- Youth pathways as process : how factor configuration, time dynamics and reflexivity combine together / María Eugenia Longo -- There's always tomorrow strengthening agency and challenging structure through youth work and youth policy / Howard Williamson.