Youth as a tangle shifting, and co...

Youth as a tangle shifting, and contradictory category is rarely
narrated in the dominant public sphere between the walls of the diverse voices of
the young. Prohibited from speaking as moral and political agents,
youth become an void category inhabited by the desires, fantasies
and interests of the adult world. This is not to glance at that youth
don't speak; they are simply restricted from speaking in those spheres
where public conversation shapes social policy and refused the power
to make knowledge consequential with notice to their own collective
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