UID:
almafu_9961782487102883
Format:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781529239355
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1529239354
Content:
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.
Note:
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.
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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.
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781529239331
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1529239338
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781529239324
Additional Edition:
ISBN 152923932X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781529239355
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529239355/type/BOOK
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