Abstract
Abstract This article presents current debates regarding the presence of young people in the public domain. There is a wealth of discussion and perplexity regarding how young people choose to get active in the public domain that originates from the distinct use of the term political in academic and policy debates. This article will proceed in the following way: it will summarise the main tenets of the Decline discourse, it will present how the Personalisation discourse draw our attention to alternative ways of involvement, it will discuss how Context focused discourses highlight how participatory decision making relates to the ways young people conceptualise their daily lived experience, and concludes arguing that youth participation can be better understood when it is contextualised within everyday lived experience.
Highlights
Youth participation has gained increased visibility within academic debates and public policies in the last decades
Before proceeding with the discussion of contemporary discourses of youth participation it is necessary to pause at this stage in order to ponder over the meaning of the main concepts used in this article such as youth, academic debates, or discourses and consider their relevance to particular contexts
The article proceeds in the following way: it will summarise the main tenets of the Decline discourse, it will present how the Personalisation discourse draws our attention to alternative ways of involvement, it will discuss how Context focused discourses highlight how participatory decision making relates to the ways young people conceptualise their daily lived experience, and concludes arguing that we still need more information on the ways young people organise their lives and make decisions on a daily basis regarding participation
Summary
Youth participation has gained increased visibility within academic debates and public policies in the last decades. As the processes of youth participation involve an array of stakeholders the discourses presented in this article involve the contribution of academic actors and practitioners, policy makers, communities and young people themselves. This article will focus on describing current discourses about youth involvement in the public domain that cut across different disciplines and share a common interest in exploring how young people express their political roles, identities, and perceptions. 120 Maria Tsekoura effort to promote youth rights, protect young people and force accountability onto governments which fail to incorporate youth voice in their practices (for example the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child) This theoretically allows some space for discussion regarding processes, rationale and purpose of youth participation, albeit rooted in the contextual specificity of each country. The article proceeds in the following way: it will summarise the main tenets of the Decline discourse, it will present how the Personalisation discourse draws our attention to alternative ways of involvement, it will discuss how Context focused discourses highlight how participatory decision making relates to the ways young people conceptualise their daily lived experience, and concludes arguing that we still need more information on the ways young people organise their lives and make decisions on a daily basis regarding participation
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