Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society

Päivi Honkatukia is Professor of Youth Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. Tiina Rättilä is Researcher and Project Manager at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland.

Introduction

Part I: Structures and new models of youth participation

1. Youth and law drafting – developing quality youth participation in legislative processes and courtrooms

2. Experimenting with youth-centred e-participation – the case of the Virtual Council

3. Intergenerational justice and learning: from responsibilisation of young people towards sustainable well-being and environmental citizenship

4. Governance of young people’s participation: critical reflections

Part II: Critical views from the margins

5. Young adults’ perceptions of citizenship outside and beyond labour market citizenship

6. "Am I not a lovely green-and-red, a watermelon?" Young people negotiating political participation from marginalised positions

7. Young people’s climate activism on the move – case Finland

Part III: To be(come) seen and heard – but how and how to study it?

8. Participatory research with young people – too little, too much, too romanticised? Reflections on co-research with young refugees

9. Co-constructing knowledge of refugee youths’ lives in Finland – epistemological notes

10. Exploring the future together with young people – methodological considerations on playfulness, joy and silence as forms of participation

11. "How on Earth does one find a job in Finland?" Reflections on using documentary film as research method in studying young asylum seekers’ employment prospects

Conclusion