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- McMahon, Grainne, et al.
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Participation Biographies: Meaning-making, Identity-work and the Self
- 2019
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Ingår i: Young People and the Struggle for Participation. Contested Practices, Power and Pedagogies in Public Spaces. Andreas Walther, Janet Batsleer, Patricia Loncle, Axel Pohl (red.). - London : Routledge. - 9781138362420 ; , s. 161-175
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. This book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are in turn structured by young peoples’ activities. Drawing on findings from a comparative study in eight European cities, insights into different styles of youth participation emerging from formal, non-formal and informal settings are presented. The book provides a comparative analysis of how transnational discourses, national welfare states and local youth policies affect youth participation. It also investigates how it comes about that young people get involved in different forms of participation in the course of their biographies. This book will appeal to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of youth studies, community studies, sociology of education, political science, social work, psychology and anthropology.
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- McMahon, Grainne, et al.
(författare)
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Participation Biographies: Routes and relevancies of young people’s participation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Diskurs Jugend- und Kindheitsforschung. - 1862-5002. ; 14:4, s. 431-445
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Starting from a critical perspective of the dominant participation discourse which draws on a narrow and institutionalised concept of participation to ascribe young people a lack of interest in participation, this article focusses on the participation biographies of young people in European countries. The analysis reveals that participatory activities emerge differently where they become biographically meaningful. They can be expressions of the search for recognition and for feelings of self-efficacy, of coping with biographical challenges as well as with experiences in institutional contexts and of how young people position themselves between youth and adults. Thus, this article underscores that participation is not just a question of formal information but one of responses to and experiences of societal recognition.
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