Jessica K. Taft

Sociological fragments on kids, politics, and social change

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Dignity, justice, and intergenerational analysis from the movement of working children

I’ve recently written two new short pieces that highlight the political visions of the Peruvian movement of working children.  The first, for the Intergenerational Foundation, focuses on intergenerational collaboration and what young activists want and need from their adult supporters and allies.  The second, written as part of a series on children’s work for the Childhood, Law & Policy Network, explores the movement’s ideas about dignified work, exploitation, and inequality.

What Responses Should I Expect from Adults when I Engage in Activism?

I was asked to make and share a video in response this question for Mobilizing Ideas and the Informing Activists video series.  There are tons of great videos of social movement scholars sharing research that will be useful to organizers and activists.  Check them out!

Mobilizing Ideas/”Millennials and Activism”

I recently participated in an essay dialogue at Mobilizing Ideas on “Millennials and Activism.”  While I don’t usually take up a generational lens in my work (focusing more on the identity categories of youth/girl/child/adult), it was a good opportunity to think a bit about the ways that generational categories get used in conjunction with ideas about youth.  You can find it here.

Supporting working children as social, political, and economic agents

This spring I wrote a short piece for Open Democracy about the movement of working children and how they seek to support them as social, political, and economic actors.

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