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Unfiltered and Unapologetic: March for Our Lives and the Political Boundaries of Age
Abstract
When young people took to the streets on 24 March 2018 as part of March for Our Lives (MFOL), they leveraged narratives of age and generation to inspire others to take action on preventing gun violence incidences across the United States. Despite the political precarity associated with their ages, student-activists claimed public space and voice as more than the victims of the so-called "mass shooting generation." This article explores how narratives of age and generation shape their political legibility and authority in the MFOL movement. Based on analyses of Parkland student speeches and reflections and MFOL protest signs, I consider the paradoxical manner in which youth-activists play with notions of age in order to mark themselves as essential political actors and vulnerable not-yet subjects in need of protection. It is my contention that MFOL illustrates the liminal borders of youth political (in)visibility and the transformative possibilities of age-based politics for youth-activists.
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“Examples abound in the research literature and in the public eye of adolescents who are actively engaged in building community resources, helping others in their community in sustained ways, challenging injustices in their schools and communities, and organizing and leading movements that lead to local or larger-scale policy change.”
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- Authors
- Bent, E.
- Corresponding author
- Bent, Emily
- ORCID
- Bent, Emily
- Venue
- Jeunesse Young People Texts Cultures
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2019
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 55-73
- ISSN
- 1920-2601 (ISSN-L)
- 1920-261X
- OpenAlex
- W3012200141
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3
- FWCI
- 3.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Jeunesse Young People Texts Cultures (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth, Politics, and Society
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
- Social Sciences › Communication › Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Keywords
- March for Our Lives, youth activism, age and generation, gun violence prevention, political visibility, political precarity, protest signs, political authority
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