Youth, Disability, and Resistance offers a powerful account of how young disabled people across Europe are reshaping disability activism and reimagining the future of social change. Drawing on rich empirical research, Miro Griffiths examines why activism matters to young disabled people, what restricts their participation, how social movements can become more inclusive, what forms of resistance are needed to challenge unjust social worlds, and what needs to be considered regarding the future of disabled people's resistance practices.
It is argued that young disabled activists are not marginal within disabled people's social movements. Their participation and influence are essential to the renewal, sustainability, and transformative potential of disabled people's resistance. Young disabled people's activism emerges as both defensive and world-making - protecting hard-won rights while also imagining accessible, inclusive, and interdependent futures. Griffiths shows how participation is shaped by hostility, inaccessibility, financial precarity, and exclusions around age and expertise, while also highlighting the importance of hope, knowledge exchange, collective solidarity, and intersectional organising.
Combining conceptual depth with activist insight, this book positions disability activism as a creative and disruptive force. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of disability studies, youth studies, sociology, and social movement studies, as well as for activists, civil society organisations, and policymakers committed to justice and liberation.
| ISBN: | 9781032007410 |
| Publication date: | 27th August 2026 |
| Author: | Miro Griffiths |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 228 pages |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary Disability Studies |
| Genres: |
Personal and public health / health education Disability: social aspects Sociology Politics and government |
Youth, Disability, and Resistance offers a powerful account of how young disabled people across Europe are reshaping disability activism and reimagining the future of social change. Drawing on rich empirical research, Miro Griffiths examines why activism matters to young disabled people, what restricts their participation, how social movements can become more inclusive, what forms of resistance are needed to challenge unjust social worlds, and what needs to be considered regarding the future of disabled people's resistance practices.
It is argued that young disabled activists are not marginal within disabled people's social movements. Their participation and influence are essential to the renewal, sustainability, and transformative potential of disabled people's resistance. Young disabled people's activism emerges as both defensive and world-making - protecting hard-won rights while also imagining accessible, inclusive, and interdependent futures. Griffiths shows how participation is shaped by hostility, inaccessibility, financial precarity, and exclusions around age and expertise, while also highlighting the importance of hope, knowledge exchange, collective solidarity, and intersectional organising.
Combining conceptual depth with activist insight, this book positions disability activism as a creative and disruptive force. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of disability studies, youth studies, sociology, and social movement studies, as well as for activists, civil society organisations, and policymakers committed to justice and liberation.
Youth, Disability, and Resistance features in the following genres: Personal and public health / health education, Disability: social aspects, Sociology, Politics and government
Youth, Disability, and Resistance is available in Hardback
Youth, Disability, and Resistance was written by Miro Griffiths and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Youth, Disability, and Resistance has 228 pages
Yes it is part of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies series
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