Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. This book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are in turn structured by young peoples’ activities.

Drawing on findings from a comparative study in eight European cities, insights into different styles of youth participation emerging from formal, non-formal and informal settings are presented. The book provides a comparative analysis of how transnational discourses, national welfare states and local youth policies affect youth participation. It also investigates how it comes about that young people get involved in different forms of participation in the course of their biographies.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of youth studies, community studies, sociology of education, political science, social work, psychology and anthropology.

Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. This book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are in turn structured by young peoples’ activities.

Drawing on findings from a comparative study in eight European cities, insights into different styles of youth participation emerging from formal, non-formal and informal settings are presented. The book provides a comparative analysis of how transnational discourses, national welfare states and local youth policies affect youth participation. It also investigates how it comes about that young people get involved in different forms of participation in the course of their biographies.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of youth studies, community studies, sociology of education, political science, social work, psychology and anthropology.

Wie gelingt es einer Gesellschaft, die nachkommende Generation zu überzeugen, bestehende Strukturen und Prozesse zu akzeptieren, diese selbst mitzutragen und sich darüber an der zu-künftigen Gestaltung von Gesellschaft zu beteiligen? Das Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur Klärung dieser Fragen, indem der aktuelle Partizipationsdiskurs kritisch beleuchtet und eine erste Heuristik entwickelt wird, wie Potenziale für Partizipation in unterschiedlichsten Praktiken Jugendlicher aufgedeckt werden können. Auf dieser Basis werden verschiedene Praktiken junger Menschen im öffentlichen Raum auf ihre Teilhabeansprüche hin untersucht. Die Beiträge setzen sich schließlich mit biographischen wie gesellschaftlichen Realisierungsbedingungen von Teilhabeansprüche auseinander.

Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. This book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are in turn structured by young peoples’ activities.

Drawing on findings from a comparative study in eight European cities, insights into different styles of youth participation emerging from formal, non-formal and informal settings are presented. The book provides a comparative analysis of how transnational discourses, national welfare states and local youth policies affect youth participation. It also investigates how it comes about that young people get involved in different forms of participation in the course of their biographies.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of youth studies, community studies, sociology of education, political science, social work, psychology and anthropology.

Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. This book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are in turn structured by young peoples’ activities.

Drawing on findings from a comparative study in eight European cities, insights into different styles of youth participation emerging from formal, non-formal and informal settings are presented. The book provides a comparative analysis of how transnational discourses, national welfare states and local youth policies affect youth participation. It also investigates how it comes about that young people get involved in different forms of participation in the course of their biographies.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of youth studies, community studies, sociology of education, political science, social work, psychology and anthropology.

Wie gelingt es einer Gesellschaft, die nachkommende Generation zu überzeugen, bestehende Strukturen und Prozesse zu akzeptieren, diese selbst mitzutragen und sich darüber an der zu-künftigen Gestaltung von Gesellschaft zu beteiligen? Das Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur Klärung dieser Fragen, indem der aktuelle Partizipationsdiskurs kritisch beleuchtet und eine erste Heuristik entwickelt wird, wie Potenziale für Partizipation in unterschiedlichsten Praktiken Jugendlicher aufgedeckt werden können. Auf dieser Basis werden verschiedene Praktiken junger Menschen im öffentlichen Raum auf ihre Teilhabeansprüche hin untersucht. Die Beiträge setzen sich schließlich mit biographischen wie gesellschaftlichen Realisierungsbedingungen von Teilhabeansprüche auseinander.