Youth participation and democracy: cultures of doing society
This book introduces the concept of 'doing society' by exploring how Finnish youth engage in political action beyond traditional forms. Combining empirical research and theoretical innovation, it offers a holistic view of youth participation, redefining political action to include non-conv...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book introduces the concept of 'doing society' by exploring how Finnish youth engage in political action beyond traditional forms. Combining empirical research and theoretical innovation, it offers a holistic view of youth participation, redefining political action to include non-conventional and non-verbal expressions |
| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025) Front Cover -- Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Collaborators -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Doing Society -- Theoretical grounds for doing society -- Aspects of doing society: civic imaginations, group styles and regimes of engagement -- Expanding the boundaries of 'the civic' -- The 'zeitgeist' context: blurring individualism and collectivism -- The Nordic context for individualistic cultural tools -- Studying young people's engagements -- Overview of this book -- 2 Institutional Participation: Youth Councils and Participatory Budgeting Fostering Better Citizens -- Introduction -- Youth participation, participatory democracy and institutional practices -- A mixed bag: multisited observations of institutional youth participation -- Neartown youth council: learning through simulation, instead of participation -- RuutiBudjetti: a youth work approach to democracy -- Discussion -- 3 Aspiring Politicians: From Amateur Engagements to Problem Solving -- Introduction -- The participatory-industry path to politics -- The youth organization veteran path to politics -- The hobby-collector path to politics -- What is politics for? Civic imagination and engagement in a political career -- Conclusions -- 4 Voicing Ideas: Participation through E-democracy -- Introduction -- What kind of youth participation is this? -- Civic imaginations and justifications in Youthideas.fi -- Let us in from the recess when it is cold: what do young people want? -- Justifications of youth ideas -- Conclusions: formal participation and technical problem solving -- 5 Imagining Alone: The Necessity of the Atomized Self among Stigmatized Youth -- The society we don't belong to -- "I don't do the voting stuff" -- Acting for a better future Self-transformation: changing oneself into a 'respectable citizen' -- Opting out: flipping the finger to 'the system' -- Subversion: critiquing the valuation schemes of society -- Imagining alone together? -- 6 Online Transgressions: Imageboards and Cultural Practices of Anonymous Citizenship -- Culture on Ylilauta -- Technological affordances and cultural tools -- Transgression and shock value as group style -- Anonymous group style -- Conflicting politics -- Conclusions -- 7 Street Party: Urban Individualism and the Culture of Commitment -- Introduction -- The rearticulation of individualism and collectivism -- Several meanings of individualism -- The ideologically non-ideological Kallio movement -- The Kallio Initiative -- Personalized commitments: doing and not belonging -- Separating the wheat from the chaff: individual responsibility and the culture of commitment -- Slipping from individualized expression to the pursuit of individual interests -- Challenging prefigurative politics -- Conclusions -- 8 Reluctant Rebels: The New Climate Movement and the Individual Activists -- Introduction -- Reluctant activists -- Collective as a tool -- Optimizing political protest -- Giving up 'normal life' -- 'Slow and stuffy' political structures in need of repair -- Conclusion -- 9 Conclusions: Cultures of Doing Society -- Doing society in a spectrum of engagements -- The cultural tools of individualism -- From descriptive to constructive representation? -- Dispelling myths about young people -- Getting close: ethnography and the focus on patterned (inter)action -- Zooming out: big data, surveys and large-n text analysis -- Methods and data notes for individual chapters -- Chapter 2: participatory projects -- Chapter 3: aspiring politicians -- Chapter 4: e-democracy -- Chapter 5: stigmatized youth -- Chapter 6: anonymous imageboard Chapter 7: street party - urban individualism and sense of community -- Chapter 8: climate activists -- Research ethics -- References -- Appendix: Mixed Distance Methods and Data -- Getting close: ethnography and the focus on patterned (inter)action -- Zooming out: big data, surveys and large-n text analysis -- Methods and data notes for individual chapters -- Chapter 2: participatory projects -- Chapter 3: aspiring politicians -- Chapter 4: e-democracy -- Chapter 5: stigmatized youth -- Chapter 6: anonymous imageboard -- Chapter 7: street party - urban individualism and sense of community -- Chapter 8: climate activists -- Research ethics -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- References -- Index |
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