The constraints of youth: young people, active citizenship and the experience of marginalisation
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Article Title | The constraints of youth: young people, active citizenship and the experience of marginalisation |
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ERA Journal ID | 34674 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Hickey, Andrew (Author) and Pauli-Myler, Tanya (Author) |
Journal Title | Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education |
Journal Citation | 40 (3), pp. 372-385 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2019 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0159-6306 |
1469-3739 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1351920 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2017.1351920 |
Abstract | This paper charts the experiences of a group of young people and their involvement in a local government initiative to engage young people in public decision-making. Activated through a youth leaders’ council that sought to influence and inform local government decision-making, the participating young people were given responsibility for enacting focus projects in collaboration with local government personnel. However, this method of simply bringing young people together with local government decision-makers did not automatically alter the way that decisions came to be made and ironically resulted in interactions that went some way to further reinforce existing perceptions of young people as incapable in situations of public administration. This paper reports on a case example detailing an interaction between the youth leaders and local government councillors, and will suggest that the experience of the young people involved in the youth leaders’ council can be understood against a dynamic of ‘constraint’. |
Keywords | active citizenship, constraint, local government, young people, youth council, youth leaders |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 441099. Sociology not elsewhere classified |
470299. Cultural studies not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q46y4/the-constraints-of-youth-young-people-active-citizenship-and-the-experience-of-marginalisation
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