Participation Biographies: Routes and relevancies of young people’s participation

Abstract

institutionalised concept of participation to ascribe young people a lack of interest in participation, this article focusses on the participation biographies of young people in European countries. The analysis reveals that participatory activities emerge differently where they become biographically meaningful. They can be expressions of the search for recognition and for feelings of self-efficacy, of coping with biographical challenges as well as with experiences in institutional contexts and of how young people position themselves between youth and adults. Thus, this article underscores that participation is not just a question of formal information but one of responses to and experiences of societal recognition.

Participation On and Beyond the Boundaries: Brazilian Youth Activism in Radical Right Movements

“…Pfaff, 2009). Biographical studies represent a shift towards the interpretation of political participation in terms of subjectivity and identities and how different forms of participation emerge in the process of growing up (Schwanenflügel et al, 2019). These studies show that engagement and participation emerge from young people's search for belonging and recognition (cf.…”

Nos limiares do(a) político(a): (des/re)construindo trajetórias e narrativas de jovens ativistas das Direitas Radicais no Brasil e na Alemanha

“…Pfaff, 2009). Estudos biográficos representaram uma mudança em direção à interpretação da participação política em termos de subjetividade e identidades e em como diferentes formas de participação surgem no processo de crescimento (Schwanenflügel et al, 2019). Esses estudos indicam que o engajamento e a participação surgem da busca dos jovens por pertencimento e reconhecimento, o que os leva a sair de seus contextos sociais familiares e percorrer espaços públicos, não só intencionalmente, mas também por necessidade (cf.…”