Youth Participation in Europe: Beyond Discourses, Practices and RealitiesPatricia Loncle In a period where social unrest manifests itself by coinciding with young people's dissatisfaction with formal political involvement and the diversification of protest movements across the globe, the question of youth participation is at the forefront of democratic societies. This timely book offers a fresh look at youth participation: examining official and unofficial constructions of participation by young people in a range of socio-political domains, exploring the motivations and rationales underlying official attempts to increase participation among young people, and offering a critique of their effectiveness. Based on original research data, Youth participation in Europe provides a thorough analysis of participation initiatives at the implementation level and gives a transversal approach to various areas of youth participation. Drawing on examples from different European countries, it analyses the results of structure on youth participation and the effects of youth agencies on types of mobilisation. |
Contents
one The analysis of youth participation in contemporary | 1 |
strong discourses weak policies | 21 |
the emergence of a new | 39 |
between | 57 |
beyond established forms of youth | 77 |
Figures | 84 |
six Youth participation in the framework of the reformulation | 93 |
eight Youth participation and local social and youth policies | 125 |
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action activities adults agency agonistic pluralism analysis approach associations Austria Becquet biographies characterised child children and young children’s participation children’s rights citizens citizenship City civic education civic engagement civic participation concept context Council of Europe countries Cuconato decision makers delegates deliberative democracy democracy democratic dialogue discussion Dublin economic European Commission experiences Facebook Finland Finnish forms of participation Gaiser groups Helsinki implementation individual individualisation Infancia institutions integration interactive Internet involved Ireland Irish issues Italy labour market learning Loncle means municipal Muniglia non-formal Nyyti offline participatory Percy-Smith perspective political participation practices problems programmes projects promote pupils regarding relationship representatives role Routledge school councils secondary school sector Slovakia social change social media social networking society space Spannring structures student councils UNICEF UP2YOUTH Walther websites welfare young people’s participation youth culture youth participation youth policies