Children and Youth in Armed Conflict
Responses, Resistance, and Portrayal in Media
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The integration of new technologies has opened unparalleled opportunities for shaping the discourse of marginalized groups and facilitating decentralized communication during crises. Yet, a divide exists between individual experiences and societal perceptions and how these narratives are portrayed and perceived in the media. These dynamics form the basis of exploration in Children and Youth in Armed Conflict: Responses, Resistance, and Portrayal in Media, the second of two volumes, offering a compelling exploration of how children and youth endure conflict and how their stories are told and retold in the public sphere, influencing advocacy, policymaking, and community responses worldwide.
The second volume examines diverse global perspectives of media use by post-war generations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia. It explores cybersecurity, AI, and their impact on children in conflict, analyzes narratives in art and online memorials, children’s agency in Ukraine and Syria, and investigates social media's role in youth activism in India and Israel-Palestine. Chapters highlight issues such as Boko Haram's impact on girls through media representation, social media narratives in the Israel-Palestine conflict, China's portrayal in films, and the analysis of children's art and poetry within conflict zones.
Acknowledging the crucial role of children and youth as catalysts for peace and justice in conflict and post-conflict settings, this is pathbreaking reading for scholars of childhood, youth, peace, and conflict.
Children and Youth in Armed Conflict: Responses, Resistance, and Portrayal in Media; Tamanna M. Shah
- Part I. Children and Youth Responses and Resistance in Media
- Chapter 1. Between Hope and Death: Shaheed as Equipment for Living Amid Palestine’s Youth; Sophia Koleno
- Chapter 2. “Children of the Balkan Wars”: Responses and Resistance to War-Related Media Content in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia; Eva Tamara Asboth and Michaela Griesbeck OPEN ACCESS
- Chapter 3. Diaries of War: Children's Narratives and Agency in Ukraine and Syria; Iuliia Hoban and Denise R. Muro
- Chapter 4. Children and Youth Art as a Form of Resistance in Conflict Zones; Raghu Yadav and Rose Williamson
- Part II. Media Portrayal of Narratives and Lived Experiences
- Chapter 5. Media Intervention for Young Children During Mass Trauma Experiences: Promoting Theory of Mind and Resilience; Erin L. Ryan
- Chapter 6. Children Throwing Stones as a Metaphor of Counter-Hegemony; Kazım Tolga Gürel
- Chapter 7. Beginning of Life, End of Life: Examining Online Memorials of Children in Sites of Armed Conflict; Aya Diab and Danielle L. Johnson
- Chapter 8. Capturing Resistance: Unveiling Visual Narratives of Youth Activism in the Israel-Palestine 2023 Conflict Through Media Posted on Instagram; Sonali Jha and Mary-Magdalene N. Chumbow
- Chapter 9. The Evolving Family and the Lyrical Child; Haoyue Zhang
- Chapter 10. Loss of Naivety and Innocence: War Childhood in the Nineties Balkans; Julija Ovsec
- Chapter 11. Children as Participants in Terrorism: Uche Aguh’s Sambisa (2016) as a Paradigm; Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah and Damilare Ogunmekan
- Chapter 12. Resistance in Youth Literature; Omama Al-Lawati
- Part III. Emotions and Technology
- Chapter 13. Healing Through Empathy: Machine Learning for Adaptive Therapy for Children and Youth in Armed Conflict; Javed M. Shah and Tamanna M. Shah
Tamanna M. Shah is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University, USA. Her research explores the intersections of comparative political sociology, gender, and armed conflict, and the transformative forces driving social change and confronting inequality.