Reshaping youth participation : Manchester in a European gaze / edited by Gráinne McMahon, Harriet Rowley and Janet Batsleer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Batsleer, Janet, editor.

Rowley, Harriet, editor.

McMahon, Gráinne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Europe. .

Political participation.

Political participation. .

Europe. .

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2023]

Summary:

Reshaping Youth Participationreframes discussions around youth political, social, civic, and cultural participation. Drawing upon insights on democracy and citizenship, self-organising and protest movements, and arts activism as engaged social activism, chapters consider the spaces in which young people find voice and action.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

About the Editors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction to 'Manchester in a European Gaze'

The City of Manchester

The PARTISPACE Project

The UK Research Team

Setting the Context of Manchester in a European Gaze

The Current Volume

References

Section 1: (Non)Formal Spaces for Representation and Democracy

Chapter 2: Democrat and/or Parasite: Beyond the Tokenism Debate in the Emergence of the Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (A Manchester Case)

Youth Democracy in Many Forms

'Young people need a voice in this'

Moving from Tokenism to Parasitical Resistance

Thinking 'Parasitically'

Eric

Lynn

'Our Pass'

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Moving Out of Formal Structures: Young People as Independent Action Researchers (A Manchester Case)

Introduction

MYR - How the Group Formed

What We All Brought to the Project

Getting Started - Choosing a Project

The 'Youth Homelessness Research Initiative'

Evaluating the Process

Reflections on Informal, Autonomous Participation

Conclusion: Learning from the Project

Chapter 4: Youth Councils in Other Contexts (A European Commentary)

The City of Gothenburg

Youth Council of Gothenburg

Young People in Formal Spaces

Sociability and Working Together

Support from Professionals in Youth Spaces

Motivations for Participation

Discussion

Section 2: Self-organising, Protest and Activist Movements

Chapter 5: Be(com)ing Feminist and Creating a 'Politics of a Difference' (A Manchester Case)

Where are All the Women?

When the Personal is Political

Creating a 'Politics of Difference'

A Politics of Difference and Inclusive Democracy

References.

Chapter 6: Being a Socialist in Manchester (A Manchester Case)

Setting the Background: Identity Politics

The Socialist Party and the Socialist Students: Overview and Focal Issues

'It is important to educate people on the revolutionary ideas that you don't hear about'

'Squashing all that energy'

Looking for Alliances in Common Struggles

The Reclaim The Night Protest

Youth Participation and Contemporary Politics

The Socialist Students and Mainstream Politics

The Nature of Political Engagement

Identity Politics or Communism? Yes, Please!

Chapter 7: Counter-hegemonic Politics Between Coping and Performative Self-contradictions (A European Commentary)

Doing Counter-hegemonic Politics

Presentation of the Case Study and Methodology

Attempts to Not Take Part

Attempts to Live in a Counter-hegemonic Alternative

Between Coping and Performative Self-contradictions

Conclusions and Comparative Reflections

Section 3: Precarity, Fragility, Resilience and Resistance

Chapter 8: 'Faceless': Young People Seeking Asylum and Safety (A Manchester Case)

Introducing the UK's 'Hostile Environment' and Resistance

Finding an Activist Voice: 'Language Creation from Below'

'Kosala nakati': I am joining in

'Abject Identities'

Naming the 'Faceless': Presenting a Counterstatement

'I am a human being too' (Faceless, the Play)

Conclusions

Chapter 9: Who Was Lost and Who Was Found? (A Manchester Case)

'Who is she and what is she doing here?'

First Tension: Building Relationality and Trust

'If I stop coming will you get paid?'

Tension Two: Balancing Individual Verses Social Change and External Agendas

'But will it really change anything?'

Tension Three: Anger, Empowerment and the Reoccurrence of Symbolic Violence.

'I'm like a weed that grows in between the cracks of the pavement, you want to get rid of me but you can't.'

Antidote: Creativity and the Importance of Witnessing

Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 10: Fragilities: Participation as Resilience (A European Commentary)

Fragility and Resilience

The Shelter for Homeless Migrants: Presentation of the Case Study and Methodology

Participating from a Condition of Fragility

Section 4: Creativity, Performance, Improvisation and Democracy

Chapter 11: Creativity and Enterprise: The Agency (A Manchester Case)

Conversation One: Introducing the Agency and North Manchester

Conversation Two: Participation Through Creative Agency. Having an Idea, Taking Part, and Having an Impact

Participation as Creative Agency. What Does the Agency Contribute to Our Understanding of 'Youth Participation'?

A Further Conversation: Self-belief and Empowerment

Chapter 12: Pulling a Politics Out of the Hat at 'The Noise Upstairs' (A Manchester Case)

An Outlier Case Study

The Milieu: 'affirmation' in 'a loose network harking back to the loft movement'

The Practice: Random 'Conversations' Pulled 'Out of the Hat'

An 'Alter-Accomplishment': Social Aesthetics, Affective Intensities and Event-care

'Finding Democracy in Music'?

Chapter 13: Opening up the Cracks: Street Music and Participation (A European Commentary)

A Band of Young Kurdish Musicians: Hayê

The Political Meaning of Ethnic Music

'Tactics' for Playing Ethnic Music in the Streets of Eskişehir

Opening Space in the Public Space

Chapter 14: Necessity and Dilemmas of a Wide Notion of Youth Participation: European Perspectives

Introduction.

Manchester in European Context

Ambivalences and Tensions of Youth Participation

The Struggle for Recognition - and its Discontent?

Recognition 'as'…

'Why the beer's always stronger up north.'1 Conclusions from a Critical Outsiders' View

Chapter 15: (not a) Conclusion

Part 1: Youth Participation in Manchester and Beyond

Summarising Manchester and Beyond

Why *is* the beer always stronger up North?

Part 2: Manchester in a European Gaze: 'fire in its belly again'

'Manchester is pretty gritty, huh?'

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: McMahon, Gráinne Reshaping Youth Participation

ISBN:

1-80043-358-1