Residents, customers or citizens? Tracing the idea of youthful participation in the context of administrative reforms in Finnish public administration

Bäcklund, Pia; Kallio, Kirsi Pauliina; Häkli, Jouni

doi:10.1080/14649357.2014.929726

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“…One major difference pertains to the very basics of democracy (Bäcklund et al 2014). Some municipalities have invested heavily in representative structures whereby participation is managed and facilitated by appointed teachers, youth workers, and administrative personnel.…”

Section: Administrative Ideas and Interventions In Supporting Youthfumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to these, we have recently carried out an ethnographic study locating children and young people's experiences and views concerning participation, belonging and communality (Kallio 2014a(Kallio , 2014b(Kallio , 2015. The empirical analysis presented in the next three sections is part of the project Preventing Children's Marginalization through Place-Based Participation that brings together these two research strands (see also Bäcklund, Kallio and Häkli 2014).…”

Section: Exploring Participation In Finnish Child and Youth Policy Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Valentine 1996), sets fair challenges to local administration (Bäcklund et al 2014). When translating national requirements to municipal strategies, plans of action and practical arrangements, the local administrative personnel are compelled to consider youthful participation simultaneously as a right of the child, an administrative issue and lived reality.…”

Section: Exploring Participation In Finnish Child and Youth Policy Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These two distinct developments and discussions come together in the contemporary trend in Western democracies, whereby citizen participation has become an established concept in the public administration rhetoric (Innes and Booher 2004;Leal 2007Cornwall 2008; Bäcklund and Mäntysalo 2010;Silver et al 2010;Delwaux and Schoenaers 2012;Leino 2012;Bäcklund, Kallio and Häkli 2014). Despite the increasingly complex territorial settings in both public administration practices and citizen's lived realities, local governments in Finland and elsewhere are fostering civic participation through their legally determined territorial frameworks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lived citizenship as the locus of political agency in participatory policy

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Häkli

Bäcklund

2014

Citizenship Studies

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Participatory policies seeking to foster active citizenship continue to be dominated by a territorial imagination. Yet the world where people identify and perform as citizens is spatially multifarious. This article engages with the tension between territorially grounded perceptions and relational modes of practicing political agency. Studying empirically the Finnish child and youth policies we address jointly the participatory obligations that municipalities strive to fulfill, and the spatial attachments that children and young people establish in their lived worlds. To this end we introduce the concept of lived citizenship as an interface where the territorially-bound public administration and the plurality of spatial attachments characteristic to transnational living may meet. We conclude by proposing a regrounding of lived citizenship in both topological and topographical terms as an improvement in theoretical understanding of mundane political agency and as a step towards more proficient participatory policies.

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Section: Administrative Ideas and Interventions In Supporting Youthfumentioning

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Section: Exploring Participation In Finnish Child and Youth Policy Anmentioning

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Section: Exploring Participation In Finnish Child and Youth Policy Anmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Lived citizenship as the locus of political agency in participatory policy

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2014

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“…The study that I draw from is based at the University of Tampere Bäcklund et al 2014;Kallio 2014;Kallio et al 2015). The approach is hence more or less opposite to that which was employed by the 1960s socialization scholars.…”

Section: Tracing Spatio-political Socialization With Childrenmentioning

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Rethinking Spatial Socialisation as a Dynamic and Relational Process of Political Becoming

Kallio

2014

Global Studies of Childhood

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In this paper, I set out to bring early political development back to the research agenda in childhood studies as well as to the social scientific inquiry more generally. Proposing a geographical approach, I seek to develop the concept of spatial socialization as a dynamic and relational process through which political becoming takes place. Contrary to conventional conceptions, I present children as participants rather than as recipients of socialization--active agents in their everyday environments alongside their adult authorities, institutions, the media, and their communities as a whole. Moreover, drawing from phenomenological theorizations of subjectivity, politics and space, the employed approach problematizes the worlds in which political socialization takes place. I argue that the dynamic processes of socialization constitute the spatial realities where children and youth lead their as much as they constitute the youthful subjects they involve.

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Residents, customers or citizens? Tracing the idea of youthful participation in the context of administrative reforms in Finnish public administration

Cited by 29 publications

References 83 publications

Lived citizenship as the locus of political agency in participatory policy

Lived citizenship as the locus of political agency in participatory policy

Rethinking Spatial Socialisation as a Dynamic and Relational Process of Political Becoming

How Does the Idea of Co‐Production Challenge Public Sector Communication?

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