Youth Participation in Europe: Beyond Discourses, Practices and RealitiesLoncle, Patricia, Cuconato, Morena 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
| 1 | |
strong discourses weak policies a general perspective | 21 |
the emergence of a new political consciousness? | 39 |
between an instrument of social education and a socioeducational practice | 57 |
beyond established forms of youth participation | 77 |
6 Youth participation in the framework of the reformulation of local youth policies in Italy | 93 |
impediments confronting Irish youth | 109 |
8 Youth participation and local social and youth policies in Spain | 125 |
key findings from a panEuropean research project | 159 |
when ICT becomes a tool of participation in public health in Finland | 173 |
12 Learning to participate or participating to learn? | 189 |
the interplay between tradition and innovation | 207 |
14 Participation or nonparticipation? Getting beyond dichotomies by applying an ideologycritical a comparative and a biographical perspective | 227 |
biographies of participation in youth | 245 |
| 255 | |
new reflections after the youth quake in Northern Africa and the Middle East | 143 |
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