Fra tynn til tykk medvirkning: Unge medforskere som lokale kunnskapsprodusenter

Rebels in their own job: How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation in an urban planning process into uninvited activism

“…Hopefully, this notion will enable a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between agency, empowerment, participation and acts of activism. Thick participation, we argue, is based on the following three components: (1) thick relations, (2) thick understandings and (3) thick descriptions (Rosten et al., 2021). Thick relations , or multiplex relations (Christie, 1982; Eriksen, 2010), imply that people know each other in several different ways or capacities, something which both strengthens and complicates the bonds between them.…”

“…In our attempts to clarify this somewhat murky terminology, we have earlier introduced what we call ‘thick participation’ (Rosten et al., 2021). Hopefully, this notion will enable a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between agency, empowerment, participation and acts of activism.…”