{"title":"Frontrunners Against Inequality: the stories of Darpan and Barwago","authors":"Darpan Raj Gautam, B. Hussein","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447345411.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447345411.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Darpan Raj Gautam and Barwaqo Jamma Husein share their experiences with their participation in the project “Part of the Community”, organised by the Danish NGO, MS Action Aid Denmark. The aim was to establish a forum for young people in the club to help them gain influence and democratic experiences. Based on the method ‘Journey mapping’ Gautam and Hussain share their personal experiences and visions of being engaged in change processes and political activities that can challenge young people’s experiences of inequality related to living in deprived neighborhoods.","PeriodicalId":373946,"journal":{"name":"Young People's Participation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129068410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meaningful, effective and sustainable? Challenges for children and young people’s participation","authors":"E. Kay, M. Tisdall","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447345411.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447345411.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Children and young people’s participation activities continue to grow, galvanised by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. As the activities have proliferated, so has a list of common barriers and problems for children and young people’s participation in collective decision-making: from tokenism and lack of impact on decision-making, to some children and young people being over-consulted while others are marginalised. While this list is frustratingly familiar, certain activities seem to address all or most of these barriers and problems. These examples provide potential learning tools, to examine why they have apparently done so. One such example is youth-led research projects, which involve a core group of children and young people, over a set amount of time, with facilitating adults and organisations. This chapter considers how the young researchers and projects claim credibility and legitimacy, through processes of knowledge production. By emphasising expertise, these projects resist perennial critiques of children and young people’s participation being unrepresentative. But they create inequalities for those with less time, interest or commitment for in-depth involvement. The chapter concludes that such projects are not radical in challenging the norms of legitimacy and credibility but can be in positioning children and young people as knowledge producers.","PeriodicalId":373946,"journal":{"name":"Young People's Participation","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125314169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Israel, J. Deakin, Renata Franc, A. Markina, Rein Murakas, M. Quandt
{"title":"Bounded agency and social participation: how socioeconomic situation and experiences influence young people’s way of engaging in society","authors":"S. Israel, J. Deakin, Renata Franc, A. Markina, Rein Murakas, M. Quandt","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447345411.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447345411.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents data from the PROMISE Youth Survey gathered as part of PROMISE, a Horizon 2020 research project addressing the social participation of young people in conflict with authority. Building on the work of Evans (2002), Munford and Sanders (2015) and Ekman and Amnå (2012), the authors develop the concept of social participation to provide a broader, context-based definition that allows an exploration of a diverse range of youth activities. The analysis explores the diverse forms of social participation and the factors that can influence young people´s agency and ability to engage. The authors highlight the extent to which young people´s agency is bound by their experience and current social context, and assess under which circumstances those experiences can become an enabler of engagement.","PeriodicalId":373946,"journal":{"name":"Young People's Participation","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132095507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}