Speaking Youth to Power: Tokenistic or Meaningful Representations? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the ‘European Year of Youth 2022’ and the ‘Year of ASEAN Youth 2022’
(2024) STVK12 20241Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This thesis examines how young people are represented in the discourse and policy outputs of the ‘European Year of Youth 2022’ and the ‘Year of ASEAN Youth 2022’ and in what capacity the neoliberal logics of development are reflected in the discursive representations of youth. The analysis presented continuously explores how these initiatives construct and frame youth political participation and, importantly, whether they offer meaningful or tokenistic representations that may be supported or contested by youth. The findings indicate that young people are recurringly portrayed in four ways: (a) youth as “agents of change,” (b) “future-ready” youth, (c) “young entrepreneurs”, and (d) youth as “strategic partners.”. While each of these four... (More)
- This thesis examines how young people are represented in the discourse and policy outputs of the ‘European Year of Youth 2022’ and the ‘Year of ASEAN Youth 2022’ and in what capacity the neoliberal logics of development are reflected in the discursive representations of youth. The analysis presented continuously explores how these initiatives construct and frame youth political participation and, importantly, whether they offer meaningful or tokenistic representations that may be supported or contested by youth. The findings indicate that young people are recurringly portrayed in four ways: (a) youth as “agents of change,” (b) “future-ready” youth, (c) “young entrepreneurs”, and (d) youth as “strategic partners.”. While each of these four figures of youth appears relevant to the policy discussions at hand, these discursive representations are not devoid of implicit meanings and, more often than not, convey significant ideological inferences in their use. (Less)
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- author
- Aghajani, Nika LU
- supervisor
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- Anders Uhlin LU
- organization
- course
- STVK12 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Representations of Youth, Youth Political Participation, Neoliberal Developmentalism, Year of Youth, EU, ASEAN
- language
- English
- id
- 9153272
- date added to LUP
- 2024-07-18 13:51:48
- date last changed
- 2024-07-18 13:51:48
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abstract = {{This thesis examines how young people are represented in the discourse and policy outputs of the ‘European Year of Youth 2022’ and the ‘Year of ASEAN Youth 2022’ and in what capacity the neoliberal logics of development are reflected in the discursive representations of youth. The analysis presented continuously explores how these initiatives construct and frame youth political participation and, importantly, whether they offer meaningful or tokenistic representations that may be supported or contested by youth. The findings indicate that young people are recurringly portrayed in four ways: (a) youth as “agents of change,” (b) “future-ready” youth, (c) “young entrepreneurs”, and (d) youth as “strategic partners.”. While each of these four figures of youth appears relevant to the policy discussions at hand, these discursive representations are not devoid of implicit meanings and, more often than not, convey significant ideological inferences in their use.}},
author = {{Aghajani, Nika}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Speaking Youth to Power: Tokenistic or Meaningful Representations? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the ‘European Year of Youth 2022’ and the ‘Year of ASEAN Youth 2022’}},
year = {{2024}},
}