The Role of Youth in Population-Environment Advocacy

Abstract

Chapter 4 provides an ethnographic exploration of population advocacy training workshops aimed at college-aged youth. This chapter analyzes training micropractices, covering the historical and contemporary ways NGOs engage youth with development knowledge linking narratives and discourses about women’s reproductive lives, empowerment, and environmental problems. In the process of being trained to advocate for global population policies, youth participants transform from campus activists to population advocates, development experts, and self-styled leaders on a global stage.