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Participation Biographies: Routes and relevancies of young people's participation

Partizipationsbiographien: Verläufe und Bedeutungen von Partizipation junger Menschen
[journal article]

Schwanenflügel, Larissa von
Lütgens, Jessica
McMahon, Gráinne
Liljeholm Hansson, Susanne

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 countrie... view more

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.... view less


Ausgehend von einer Kritik am dominanten Partizipationsdiskurs, der auf einem engen und institutionalisierten Partizipationsbegriff beruht und jungen Menschen ein mangelndes Interesse an Partizipation zuschreibt, fokussiert der vorliegende Artikel Partizipationsbiographien junger Menschen aus unters... view more

Ausgehend von einer Kritik am dominanten Partizipationsdiskurs, der auf einem engen und institutionalisierten Partizipationsbegriff beruht und jungen Menschen ein mangelndes Interesse an Partizipation zuschreibt, fokussiert der vorliegende Artikel Partizipationsbiographien junger Menschen aus unterschiedlichen europäischen Ländern. Die Analyse zeigt, dass Partizipation dort subjektive Bedeutung erlangt, wo sie sich als biographisch sinnvoll erweist und dementsprechend unterschiedliche Ausdrucksformen findet. Partizipationshandeln erweist sich als Ausdruck der Suche nach Anerkennung und dem Gefühl von Selbstwirksamkeit, der Bewältigung biografischer Herausforderung und Erfahrungen in institutionellen Kontexten sowie der Positionierung zwischen Jugend und Erwachsenenwelt. Damit wird deutlich, dass Partizipation nicht nur eine Frage formaler Information ist, sondern vor allem eine der Erfahrung gesellschaftlicher Anerkennung und biografischen Sinns.... view less

Keywords
biography; adolescent; participation; social recognition; self-efficacy; coping behavior; adolescence; Europe

Classification
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood

Free Keywords
biographical research; participation biography

Document language
English

Publication Year
2019

Page/Pages
p. 431-445

Journal
Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung / Discourse. Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research, 14 (2019) 4

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3224/diskurs.v14i0.01

ISSN
2193-9713

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0


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