Des grands-parents qui manifestent au côté des jeunes pour défendre une politique plus ambitieuse pour faire face à la crise climatique. Cet engagement témoigne-t-il d’un intérêt marqué des seniors pour la crise climatique ou, au contraire, fait-il figure d’exception ?Ce livre analyse les opinions et les engagements des seniors sur le thème de l’environnement afin de mieux comprendre le point de vue de cette partie de la population, rarement prise en compte. Notre étude montre que l...

Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy).Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming to bring together insights based on the contextual (macro), organizational (meso), and individual (micro) levels, and combining quantitative and qualita...

This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book showsspecifically how the relationship between unemployment and the political engagement of unemploye...

This is the first comprehensive overview of the waves of protest mobilization that spread across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession. Documenting the extent of these protests in a study covering thirty countries, including the issues they addressed and the degree to which they replicated each other, this book maps the prevalence and nature of protest across Europe, and explains the interactions between economic and political grievances that lead to protest mobilization. The authors a...