CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Karl Mannheim, Soweto Uprising, First Intifada
1 Oct 2016
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Children are conceived as belonging to the domestic sphere (and to schools), and thus not political. Formal political institutions exclude children (elections, parliaments, parties, ect. but attempt to mobilize youth for their own ends. Crc (12. 1) specifies for children"s right to be heard, but politics implies that what they say ought to influence the world they live in. Children may be excluded from formal politics, but they have consistently shown an ability to be political. In april 2013, students at bal mandir school in kaksi, nepal, protested physical abused to education ministry; principal and teachers were fired. Children have played the role of vanguard in numerous political movements, Karl mannheim- historical events produces shared generational consciousness in young people. May act as a generational unit in political action when young people share ideas and band together over the same issue. Generational cleavages may be a factor in state politics (comaroff and comaroff for.
