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Autor: Tommaso Vitale
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To: ML movimenti Bicocca
Betreff: [movimenti.bicocca] Panel on young people and political participation

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> Sorry if you have already receveived this mail but there was
> something funny
> about the previous one I sent. There it goes again...
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> Dear all,
> As members of the Standing group on Forms of Political
> Participation we are
> trying to put up together one or two panels for the ECPR General
> Conference to
> be celebrated in Pisa next september related to YOUNG PEOPLE AND
> POLITICAL
> PARTICIPATION / EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICAL
> PARTICIPATION. We would
> like to invite all those of you interested to send us paper
> proposals by next
> FRIDAY 15th of DECEMBER. If you would like to be a discussant
> (instead of, or
> besides, presenting a paper), please do tell us as well. We would
> appreciate
> very much if you sent this email to other people that you think
> could be
> interested. Here are the topics and ideas that we would like to
> explore in the
> panel(s):
>
> During the last decade there has been an increasing literature
> about the
> relationship between young people and politics. Against the well
> spread
> impression, supported by part of the academic literature, that
> young people are
> retreating from politics, some authors have suggested that what is
> taking place
> is a change in the meanings and the ways in which young people are
> participating in politics. Also, there have been an increasing
> number of
> initiatives both on the part of international organizations, of some
> governments and of the civil society trying to engage young people
> in different
> ways of political participation. We are interested in papers
> related with the
> different aspects of this debate and, more specifically we would
> like to
> receive proposals for papers
>
> -    Identifying general trends about the forms of political  
> participation
> that young people are moving away from (Voting? All party-related?)  
> and the
> ones that may be substituting them (Protest? Political consumerism?
> Volunteering?), if any.
> -    Suggesting ways to disentangle life-cycle and cohort effects. Is  
> there
> something new about the ways in which young people relate to  
> politics nowadays?
> -    Identifying new forms of political participation amongst young  
> people
> (new ICTs
> )
> -    Linking possible new meanings of politics to new forms of political
> participation amongst young people
> -    Identifying the profile of those young people who participate as  
> well
> as the different profiles of those who participate in different  
> forms of
> political participation
> -    Identifying sources of political socialization (family, media,  
> school,
> political parties, associations
> ) that facilitate more participative attitudes
> and behaviours amongst young people.
> -    Analyzing the results of policy initiatives to promote political
> participation amongst young people
> -    Analyzing the effects of education for citizenship and political
> participation (and between different approaches and contents in  
> education for
> citizenship and different forms of political participation)
> Although not exclusively, we especially welcome papers with  
> empirical material,
> whether quantitative or qualitative.

>
> We are looking forward to hearing from you. Best,
> Gema Garcia-Albacete (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
> Irene Martin (Universidad Autonoma de
> Madrid)
>
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