Articles by Temidayo Eseonu

March 18, 2024

🎭 Realising young people's democratic potential

Temidayo Eseonu

Many young people are at the forefront of demanding change, such as racial justice. Temidayo Eseonu draws on her research with racially minoritised young people to show how Afrofuturism can help them understand racism and resist its impact on their lives. Tapping into young people’s democratic potential can give us all hope for the future

Temidayo Eseonu

Lecturer in Politics and Policy, Lancaster University

Dayo's research emphasises deliberative and participatory processes which cultivate spaces for the 'voice of colour' that imagines a racially just world and the politics through which this voice of colour influences the implementation of racially just policies.

She is the founding convenor of the Racial Equity in Policy Network, a network for policymakers in the North of England interested in addressing racial inequalities, and she is co-director of Lancaster University's Ethics, Values and Policy Initiative.

With co-author Florence Okoye, Dayo recently published Making a Case for Afrofuturism as a Critical Qualitative Inquiry Method for Liberation in the journal Public Integrity.

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