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Reshaping political participation in non-democratic regimes: youth initiatives and urban practices in Kuwait

Emanuela Buscemi

Departamento de Diseño y Multimedia

Research Output:

Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Peer-review

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:

Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 15 (34 pages)

Publication milestones

Published - 2020

Publication status

Published - 2020

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom

Publication series

Publisher name: Routledge
Publication series name: Youth, Young Adulthood and Society

ISBN (Print)

ISBN 9780367500658

Chapter Number

1

Host publication title

Gulf Youth Cultures in the everyday. In Everyday Youth Cultures in the Gulf Peninsula: Changes and Challenges

Host publication editors

Emanuela Buscemi
Ildiko Kaposi

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The present chapter examines youth initiatives and urban practices in post-Arab Spring Kuwait. Youth practices in the city contribute to reforming dominant narratives quietly defying the nationalistic rhetoric: the boundaries between private and public spaces become porous, new forms of socialities and socialisation are made possible, and (political) engagement shifts to informal venues. The multiplicity of practices exemplified by quotidian youth cultures, and the creation or repurposing of urban spaces transform the city and give its inhabitants renewed possibilities of living the urban fabric beyond the strict religious, social and cultural prescriptions. These experiments for an alternative city also promote strategies of increased participation aiming at reform and social change., opens in new tab