publications

Bowman, B. (2024) Young people and participatory research in times of crises. In: Bessant, J., Collin, P. and O'Keeffe, P. Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 401–415. (https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803921808.00044)

Bowman, B. (2024) Young people's voice and power in democracy: Supporting through action. In: Wyn, J., Cuervo, H. and Cahill, H. Childhood and Youth Studies Handbook. Singapore: Springer. (Online ahead of print: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_116-1)

Bowman, B. (2023) Is it radical to be kind? New civic education in the era of young people's dissent. In: Haste, H. and Bempechat, J. New Civics, New Citizens: Critical, Competent and Responsible Agents. Leiden: Brill Publishers, pp. 23–38.

Bowman, B., Kishinani, P., Pickard, S. and Smith, M. (2023). Radical Kindness: the young climate activists transforming democracy. In: Deželan, T., Bacalso, C. and Lodeserto, A. Youth political participation. Brussels: Council of Europe and European Commission, p. 15-33. 

Hayes, T., Walker, C., Parsons, K., Arya, D., Bowman, B., Germaine, C., Lock, R., Langford, S., Peacock, S. and Thew, H. (2022). In it together! Cultivating space for intergenerational dialogue, empathy and hope in a climate of uncertainty. Children's Geographies (online ahead of print). DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2022.2121915

Neas, S., Ward, A. and Bowman, B. (2022). Young people's climate activism: A review of the literature. Frontiers in Political Science 4(940876) p. 1-13.

Walker, C. and Bowman, B. (2022). Young People and Climate Activism. Oxford Bibliographies: Childhood Studies, ed. Montgomery, H. New York: Oxford University Press.

Burton, S. and Bowman, B. (2022). The academic precariat: understanding life and labour in the neoliberal academy. British Journal of Sociology of Education 43(4) p. 497–512.

Bowman, B. and Germaine, C. (2022). Sustaining the old world, or imagining a new one? The transformative literacies of the climate strikes. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 38(1) p. 70-84.

Bowman, B., Haste, H. and Magioglou, T. (2022). Can I Trust My Future? Youth Civic Engagement, Civic Identity and Dystopias. In: Weinberg, A. (ed.), The Psychology of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 332–353.

Pickard, S., Bowman, B. and Arya, D. (2022) Young People’s Environmental Activism. In: Grasso, M. and Giugni, M. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements. London: Routledge, 521–537.

Bowman, B. (2022) Remix this method: a creative approach to young people’s everyday politics. Journal of Youth Studies, 25(1), 493–510.

Bowman, B. and Pickard, S. (2021) Peace, Protest and Precarity: Making Conceptual Sense of Young People’s Non-violent Dissent in a Period of Intersecting Crises. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 4(5), 493–510

Bowman, B. (2021) Missing an Opportunity? The Limited Civic Imagination of Votes at 16. Parliamentary Affairs, 74(3), 581–596.

Bowman, B., Bell, K. and Alexis-Martin, B. (2021) Youth, Climate and Environmentalism. In: Bell, K. (ed.), Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism. London: Routledge, 132–147.

Germaine, C. and Bowman, B. (2021) The Youth Climate Strike as Cultural Exchange and Collaborative Text. In: Crawford, N. and Mikulewicz, M. (eds.) Cultural Relations and Climate Change. London: British Council, 12–24.

Germaine, C. and Bowman, B. (2021) The Youth Climate Strike as Cultural Exchange and Collaborative Text. In: Crawford, N. and Mikulewicz, M. (eds.) Cultural Relations and Climate Change. London: British Council, 12–24.

Pickard, S., Bowman, B. and Arya, D. (2020) ‘“We Are Radical In Our Kindness”: The Political Socialisation, Motivations, Demands and Protest Actions of Young Environmental Activists in Britain’. Youth and Globalization, 2(2), 250–279.

Bowman, B. (2020) ‘They don’t quite understand the importance of what we’re doing today’: the young people’s climate strikes as subaltern activism’. Sustainable Earth, 3(16), 1-13.

 Bowman, B. (2019) ‘Imagining future worlds alongside young climate activists: a new framework for research’. Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 197(2), 295–305.

Bowman, B. (2019) Researching the politics of everyday life with young people using creative methods. SAGE Research Methods Cases, 2. 

Bowman, B. (2018), Review: By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism. Information, Communication and Society, 21(12), 1806–1807.

Bowman, B. (2018) Review: Young people re-generating politics in times of crises. Information, Communication and Society, 21(12), 1799–1800.

Bowman, B. (2017) Social Media and Everyday Politics. Information, Communication and Society, 20(12), 1782.

Bowman, B. (2016). ‘They don’t know what’s going on’: exploring young people’s political subjectivities during transitions to adulthood in the UK, PhD thesis, University of Bath, Bath, UK.       

Bowman, B. (2014) Young rioters and imagined revolution in the British Utopia of Calm. Postcolonial Studies, 17(1), 90–103.

Bowman, B. (2014) Votes at 16 should be part of the systemic reform needed to counter youth abstention from democratic institutions. In: Berry, R. and Kippin, S. (eds.), Should the UK lower the voting age to 16? London: Political Studies Association.