The politics of global youth participation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12600239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Soo Ah Kwon (0000-0003-2007-6240, Department of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 926-940 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13676261.2018.1559282 |
| OpenAlex | W2906068126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article critically examines increased opportunities for youth participation in global political affairs created by the United Nations and its member states in the 2010s. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at three global youth conferences, this study demonstrates the operationalization of participatory governance, a current mode of global politics, that seeks to engage multi-stakeholders in a seemingly more democratic and egalitarian process. It investigates how the structure and culture of participation mechanisms found in international political processes limited youth engagement. Young people expressed both dissatisfaction with what they perceived to be their inability to participate meaningfully and their desire to fulfill their human right to participation. The author argues that this reflects the construction an ideal global youth-citizen today as marked by an individual’s exercise of compulsory participation as a self-governing and responsible subject. Participation is employed as a mode of governance so that young people may instrumentally advance thier life chances against the insecurities of social risks imposed on them in the retreat of state provisions. The study underscores the need to critically examine the institutionalization of political youth agency
Agency (philosophy · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Institutionalisation · Operationalization · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Youth participation · Youth studies · Children's Rights and Participation · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |