Sarah Pickard

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Citoyenneté et Environnement

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Sarah Pickard is Professor of contemporary British Politics and Society at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris where she did her PhD after a BA Degree in Britain. Her research focuses on youth civic and political engagement from a holistic perspective. This research is situated in Youth Studies, Political Sociology and Political Science, addressing the interplay between young people, youth policy, youth culture, political participation and protest in contemporary Britain with broader international perspectives. She developed the concept Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) politics to explain young people’s individual and collective engagement outside institutional politics. Sarah is a convenor of the Political Studies Association (PSA) Young People’s Politics specialist group, a former vice president of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Sociology of Youth research committee.
She is a core team researchers for the Global Youth Participation Index (GYPI) launched in June 2025: https://gypi.epd.eu.

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Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Young People’s Climate and Environmental Activism in Britain: Cooperation, Confrontation and Fragmentation in Intersectional Prefigurative Politics.

Disruptive Do-It-Ourselves politics: Young climate and environmental activists.

The disruptive power of recognition: the case of young environmental activists.

Radical kindness and the transformation of democracy by young people.

Young people’s political discourse: Voice, efficacy and impact.

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Jeunes et politique – État des lieux sur les socialisations et expressions citoyennes à l’heure du numérique

20 avril 2026

Appel à contribution : Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

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Young People’s Climate and Environmental Activism in Britain: Cooperation, Confrontation and Fragmentation in Intersectional Prefigurative Politics.

Disruptive Do-It-Ourselves politics: Young climate and environmental activists.

The disruptive power of recognition: the case of young environmental activists.

Radical kindness and the transformation of democracy by young people.

Young people’s political discourse: Voice, efficacy and impact.

« Notre travail principal est de faire élire les conservateurs ». Conservative Future, Young Conservatives et les Jeunes conservateurs en Grande-Bretagne (2010-2020).

Les jeunes à l’heure de la politique « Do-It-Ourselves ». Jeunesses et engagements citoyens: au-delà des malentendus.

Talking about the arrival of the post-war generation gap: The social reality of teenagers, youth culture and Mods in Britain through the lyrics of ‘My Generation’ by The Who.

Young People and Climate Protest.

Young environmental activists and Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) politics: collective engagement, generational agency, efficacy, belonging and hope.

Young People and Environmental Activism: The Transformation of Democratic Politics.

Politics, participation and university students’ action: Introductory essay.

Student protest in the global south: An introductory essay.

Why it is important when secondary and high school students protest: Introductory essay.

Peace, protest and precarity: Making conceptual sense of young people’s non-violent dissent in a period of intersecting crises.

Internal heterogeneity: Fault lines intersecting and surrounding Quebec’s student movement during the maple spring of 2012.

“You are stealing our future in front of our very eyes.” The representation of climate change, emotions and the mobilisation of young environmental activists in Britain.

Trois portraits de la colère chez les jeunes adultes.

When Students Protest: Universities in Global North (Vol. 3).

When Students Protest: Secondary and High Schools (Vol. 1).

When Students Protest: Universities in Global South (Vol. 2).

Youth activism in environmental politics.

Young people and environmental activism: The transformation of democratic politics and youth engagement.

Translating Bourdieu into Youth Studies.

Civilisation Britannique – British Civilisation

The Nature of Environmental Activism among Young People in Britain in the twenty-first Century.

‘We are Radical in our Kindness’: The Political Socialisation, Motivations, Demands and Protest Actions of Young Environmental Activists in Britain.

Politics, protest and young people: Political participation and dissent in 21st century Britain.

Fuerza excesiva, vigilancia policial coercitiva y criminalización de la disidencia. Reprimir la protesta de los jóvenes en la Gran Bretaña del siglo XXI.

Momentum and the movementist ‘Corbynistas’: young people regenerating the Labour Party in Britain.

Young people re-generating politics in times of crises.

How Momentum got Britain’s youth interested in politics.

Politically engaged leisure: the political participation of young people in contemporary Britain beyond the serious leisure model.

Trying to turnup the turnout: youth wings and the youth vote in the 2015 general election.

Keep them kettled! Student protests, policing and anti-social behaviour.

Higher Education in the UK and the US: Converging university modeles in a global academic world?

Student Protests and Youth Action Against the Pension Reforms in France in 2023

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