Institutionalisation of youth political participation in the EU

ǂa ǂneoliberal attempt to castrate the political engagement of young people outside the ballot box

Abstract

Young people are increasingly withdrawing from institutional and representative forms and turning to alternative political practices. This shift has also been declaratively recognised on the level of political institutions and representatives. This article examines how youth political participation is addressed in the institutional mechanisms for youth political participation in the EU and Slovenia. Using the Foucauldian analytics of government, we show that political participation emerged during the European integration processes with the student protests of 1968 and in the processes of institutionalisation via various governmental operations the critical and alternative voices of young people were shaken off. This is also reflected in contemporary mechanisms such as the EU Youth Dialogue on the level of the European Community and the Council of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth, where the analysis shows that institutional and representative forms of political action, especially elections, are privileged, whereas alternative youth activities are almost completely disregarded. At the same time, neoliberal rationality is shifting the responsibility for (non-)participation onto young people and attempting to create an identity of active (economic) citizens who will participate in an appropriate manner

Keywords

youth;participation;institutions;representation;analytics of government;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2024
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
UDC:	323.21-053.6:061.1EU
COBISS:	200858115
ISSN:	0040-3598
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary title:	Institucionalizacija politične udeležbe mladih v EU
Secondary abstract:	Mladi se v svojem političnem delovanju odmikajo od institucionalnih in predstavniških oblik ter se vedno bolj usmerjajo alternativne politične prakse. Takšno usmeritev mladih so na deklarativni ravni prepoznale tudi politične institucije in politični predstavniki. V članku obravnavamo, kako se v institucionaliziranih mehanizmih za politično participacijo mladih v EU in Sloveniji naslavlja politično participacijo mladih. Prek foucaultovskega teoretsko-metodološkega aparata analitike oblasti pokažemo, da se je politična participacija med evropskimi integracijskimi procesi začela s študentskimi protesti leta 1968 in se v procesih institucionalizacije prek različnih praktičnih vidikov delovanja oblasti otresla kritičnih in alternativnih glasov mladih. To se odraža tudi v sodobnih mehanizmih, mladinskem dialogu na ravni Evropske skupnosti in Sveta vlade za mladino Republike Slovenije, pri čemer je iz analize razprav razvidno, da se privilegira institucionalne in predstavniške oblike političnega delovanja, predvsem volitve, alternativna udejstvovanja mladih pa so skoraj popolnoma spregledana. Hkrati pa se v okvirih neoliberalne racionalnosti odgovor za (ne)participacijo prelaga na mlade in poskuša oblikovati identiteto aktivnih (ekonomskih) državljanov, ki bodo participirali na primeren način.
Secondary keywords:	mladi;participacija;institucije;predstavništvo;analitika;Evropska unija;Mladina;Politična participacija;
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	str. 341-362
Volume:	ǂLetn. ǂ61
Issue:	ǂšt. ǂ2
Chronology:	apr.-jun. 2024
DOI:	10.51936/tip.61.2.341
ID:	24920751