{"id":3191,"date":"2017-02-16T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T08:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:14:22","slug":"understanding-student-protest-and-political-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/02\/16\/understanding-student-protest-and-political-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding student protest and political participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Paths and barriers to mobilising young people for politial action<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his new book, <em>Participation and Non-Participation in Student Activism<\/em>, Alexander Hensby develops our understanding of the social and political pathways to protest participation and non-participation in contemporary society.<\/p>\n<p>This book uses the 2010\/11 UK student protests against fees and cuts as a case study for analysing some of the key paths and barriers to political participation today. These paths and barriers \u2013 which include an individual\u2019s family socialisation, network positioning, and group identification (and dis-identification) \u2013 help us explain why some people convert their political sympathies and interests into action, and why others do not.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can read reviews of the book on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowmaninternational.com\/books\/participation-and-non-participation-in-student-activism\">publisher\u2019s website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/research\/profiles\/hensby-alex.html\">Dr Alexander Hensby<\/a> is a Research Associate within the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research, specialising in social movements, globalization, and the sociology of higher education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paths and barriers to mobilising young people for politial action In his new book, Participation and Non-Participation in Student Activism, Alexander Hensby develops our understanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/02\/16\/understanding-student-protest-and-political-participation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":3192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124,25252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}