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There is mounting evidence that youth not only take part in more conventional politics in the form of institutionalized politics of rights claims, claiming public spheres at different scales (local, global, and national), but also actively engage in less institutionalized, imaginative and creative processes. These processes “challenge the narrow and restrictive definitions of what counts as politics” (Pickard and Bessant, 2018, p. 8) and serve, in fact, to regenerate politics, establishing “new sites for deliberative practice, community building, critique and mobilization” (ibid., p. 7). To date, few studies of youth politics have given much due to language, with, for example, Årman (2021, p. 81) noting that “there is a noticeable lack of in-depth discussions on language in recent literature on language activism and youth political socialization” even though language is pivotal in the formation of young political subjectivities. Thus, this …