Differently Collective. Youth Activism in Italian University Associations

<span class="abs_content">This paper deals with the “ordinary life” of non-institutional university participation and more specifically addresses Italian university student organizations, a neglected entity in youth participation research. We set this case study in a wider research a...

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Autores principales: Riccardo Guidi, Marta Bonetti, Mariella Popolla
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5dffce6a741d449687ee1bd62c08940c2021-11-21T15:11:39ZDifferently Collective. Youth Activism in Italian University Associations1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v9i3p857https://doaj.org/article/5dffce6a741d449687ee1bd62c08940c2017-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/16659https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">This paper deals with the “ordinary life” of non-institutional university participation and more specifically addresses Italian university student organizations, a neglected entity in youth participation research. We set this case study in a wider research agenda that critically reviews the use of concepts of “second modernity” to interpret contemporary youth participation and focuses on the situated emerging collective forms of youth participation in times of a complicated transition to adulthood. University stu-dent organizations are empirically studied through a longitudinal panel qualitative analysis (1st round: 2013; 2nd round: 2016) based upon a non-probabilistic sample of organizations and activists in the cities of Pisa and Florence. Both qualitative comparative analysis and qualitative content analysis are conduct-ed. Our situated and exploratory study suggests that the term ‘reflexive’ cannot be opposed to the term ‘collec-tive’ when we focus on (youth) participation. The differently collective participatory style of the in-terviewed youngsters becomes particularly original when the associative strategy includes an emerging economic and professionalizing activity</span><br />Riccardo GuidiMarta BonettiMariella PopollaCoordinamento SIBAarticleassociationsstudentnon-institutional participationsecond modernityindividual/collectivePolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 9, Iss 3, Pp 857-892 (2017)
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non-institutional participation
second modernity
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student
non-institutional participation
second modernity
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Political science (General)
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Riccardo Guidi
Marta Bonetti
Mariella Popolla
Differently Collective. Youth Activism in Italian University Associations
description <span class="abs_content">This paper deals with the “ordinary life” of non-institutional university participation and more specifically addresses Italian university student organizations, a neglected entity in youth participation research. We set this case study in a wider research agenda that critically reviews the use of concepts of “second modernity” to interpret contemporary youth participation and focuses on the situated emerging collective forms of youth participation in times of a complicated transition to adulthood. University stu-dent organizations are empirically studied through a longitudinal panel qualitative analysis (1st round: 2013; 2nd round: 2016) based upon a non-probabilistic sample of organizations and activists in the cities of Pisa and Florence. Both qualitative comparative analysis and qualitative content analysis are conduct-ed. Our situated and exploratory study suggests that the term ‘reflexive’ cannot be opposed to the term ‘collec-tive’ when we focus on (youth) participation. The differently collective participatory style of the in-terviewed youngsters becomes particularly original when the associative strategy includes an emerging economic and professionalizing activity</span><br />
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author Riccardo Guidi
Marta Bonetti
Mariella Popolla
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title Differently Collective. Youth Activism in Italian University Associations
title_short Differently Collective. Youth Activism in Italian University Associations
title_full Differently Collective. Youth Activism in Italian University Associations
title_fullStr Differently Collective. Youth Activism in Italian University Associations
title_full_unstemmed Differently Collective. Youth Activism in Italian University Associations
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