Index
Figures
4.1Barwaqo’s map of her participatory journey
4.2Darpan’s map of his participatory journey
5.1Social position effect on efficacy
5.2Social experiences effect on efficacy
5.3Personal efficacy effect on activism, everyday engagement and helping
5.4Perceived income effect on activism, everyday engagement and helping
5.5Social exclusion effect on activism, everyday engagement and helping
5.6Discrimination effect on activism, everyday engagement and helping
5.7Education effect on activism, everyday engagement and helping
5.8Activity status effect on activism, everyday engagement and helping
5.9Local connection effect on activism, everyday engagement and helping
5.10Social trust effect on activism, everyday engagement and helping
5.11Police contact effect on activism, everyday engagement and helping
6.1Political trust and reflexivity
6.2Conventional and unconventional political participation
6.3Unconventional political participation
10.1A young man rehearsing violin under the bridge
10.2Young people assemble before a concert on the periphery of the city
10.3At night, bands play on a ‘stage’ comprising a podium between the concrete pillars of a bridge
10.4A sign on the ground directed at users of a public outdoor skateboarding park in Denmark
14.1The first four frames of Sofie’s journey map
14.2Last frame of Sofie’s journey map
14.3Isaam’s journey map
14.4Examples of small, project-defined communities. Danish text says: 1. Courage, happiness, unity, common cause. 2. Meet new young people
14.5Examples of larger, local communities. Danish text says: 1. Welcome to a ghetto, welfare support, Islam, immigrants, integration, crime. 2. Help other young people – make a difference
14.6Examples of big, societal communities
15.1Walking along the canal, August 2017
15.2Visual methods
15.3Walking
15.4Lucy running, August 2017
15.5Map making, August 2017
Tables
5.1Overview of the positive and negative effect of social position and life experiences on agency
6.1ICCS test, European average scores for civic knowledge
6.2ICCS items, conventional and unconventional political participation
6.3An outline of empirical findings
7.1Dimensions of participation in Estonia in the MYPLACE study
15.1Table of activity
Airi-Alina Allaste is Professor of Sociology at Tallinn University, Estonia. Her research, publications and teaching have concentrated on youth studies. She has coordinated several projects on youth cultures, lifestyles and participation, and has edited seven books/special journal issues. Her research focuses mainly on the analyses of the meanings that young people themselves attribute to their lives. Her most recent publication, written jointly with Kari Saari, was ‘Social media and participation in different socio-political contexts’, which appeared in 2020 in the journal YOUNG.
Mette Bladt is Associate Professor at University College Copenhagen, Denmark, working in the field of action research with young offenders. Her research focuses on participation as a key factor in challenging inequality structures, in particular how the institutional welfare system could be developed to accommodate marginalised young people and therefore extend and enhance their life opportunities.
Maria Bruselius-Jensen is Associate Professor at the Centre for Youth Research, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark. She has a general research interest in youth civic engagement with particular experience with both methodological and theoretical approaches to young people’s facilitated participation. Recent work includes studies of social communities, new trends in voluntary engagement and project-based facilitated youth participation.
David Cairns is Principal Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has published extensively in the areas of youth, mobility, political participation and education, including seven books and articles in journals including YOUNG, Journal of Youth Studies, Children’s Geographies, Social and Cultural Geography and International Migration. He is currently working on a project exploring precariousness in the careers of scientists in Portugal.
Jo Deakin is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research, situated at the intersection between youth work, justice and social policy, focuses on youth inclusion and exclusion in community and institutional settings. Specifically, her research addresses young people’s responses to aspects of criminalisation, social control and stigma. She is a multi-methods researcher with a particular interest in participatory arts-based
