Youth Heteropolitics in Crisis-Ridden Greece

Kioupkiolis, Αlexandros; Pechtelidis, Yannis

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“…In both countries, young people have taken part in a range of public acts such as demonstrations, flash-mobs and urban interventions, as well as more localised acts of political consumerism. The latter have taken the form of deliberative alternative economic experiments, such as 'Buy local' campaigns, which in some contexts may be supported by the development of Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) and of alternative currencies (Kioupkiolis and Pechtelidis, 2018).…”

Section: Political Consumerismmentioning

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“…These types of political action are often conducted by young people who are dissatisfied with institutional and electorally-focussed politics (Kioupkiolis and Pechtelidis, 2018), are highly critical of politicians and the party-based political system (Sloam, 2014) and feel disillusioned by the lack of impact their voice has in the mainstream political arena (Henn and Oldfield, 2016). These young citizens will therefore choose to participate on their own terms, through aspects of their identity they feel most comfortable to express, in political projects exclusively of their own choice (Marsh and Akram, 2015) or even through the act of non-participation itself as a political statement (Fergusson, 2013).…”

Section: Political Consumerismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pulled in and pushed out of politics: The impact of neoliberalism on young people’s differing political consumerist motivations in the UK and Greece

Kyroglou

Henn

2020

International Political Science Review

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Political consumerism refers to citizens’ use of boycotting and buycotting as they seek to influence political outcomes within the marketplace rather than through more traditional routes such as voting. However, given the pressure that neoliberalist forces exert on the marketplace, the lack of literature problematising the relationship between political consumerism and neoliberalism is somewhat surprising. Addressing this gap, we examine how neoliberalism impacts youth political consumerism in the UK and Greece. Focus-group findings suggest the existence of two inter-connected effects. Firstly, we detect a neoliberal ‘push effect’ away from electoral politics. Secondly, we discern a parallel ‘pull effect’ as young people seek the ‘political’ within the marketplace. In Greece, youth political consumerism seems to result primarily from distrust of institutional political actors. In contrast, young political consumers in the UK appear to be principally driven by confidence in the capacity of the market to respond to their pressing needs.

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Section: Political Consumerismmentioning

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Section: Political Consumerismmentioning

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Pulled in and pushed out of politics: The impact of neoliberalism on young people’s differing political consumerist motivations in the UK and Greece

Kyroglou

Henn

2020

International Political Science Review

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“…Urban commons stem from citizens' groups in urban centers that increasingly reclaim public space and infrastructure, such as housing and energy supplies, and strive to run them as collectively self-managed resources for the common good. This allows them to experience other modes of civic participation and self-reliance beyond the state and the marketplace (Kioupkiolis, 2020 ). Urban commons differ from public spaces in cities, such as squares and infrastructure, which are subject to the power of the state and public administration.…”

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Media education and educational commons for youth civic engagement. A case study from the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH

Cappello

Siino

2023

Front. Sociol.

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This study presents the preliminary findings of the first round of implementation of a case study included in the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH. The project's main objective is to introduce and study the emergent paradigm of the educational commons as an alternative system of values and actions for promoting intercultural and intergenerational dialogue and establishing spaces of democratic citizenship that support the development of local communities. Our case study adopts this paradigm with insights derived from the field of media education. Hence, our research questions were as follows: (a) How do young people collectively experience and build the educational commons? (b) How do participants (youth and adults) in educational commons experience peer governance and how do they handle and resolve conflicts? (c) How does the co-creation of a photo-blog as a shared space of work help young people discover and develop a "civic intentionality" in the (digital) public sphere? (d) What are the effects of applying a commons' logic to address inequalities and achieve social inclusion of young people from vulnerable social groups? Fieldwork, framed in an ethnographic and action-research approach, was developed by examining the three dimensions of the notion of educational commons (commoners, commoning practices, and community). Although data collection and analysis are still in progress, our preliminary results allow us to draw some initial reflections on what worked well in the first round and what could hinder the achievement of the project's objectives. We also propose hypotheses for re-designing the second round to overcome the weaknesses that emerged during the first experimental phase and foster its strengths.

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“…Today's complex social reality is marked by different problems such as social exclusion, the hollowing out of democracy or environmental degradation [1][2][3]. Problems which, for Pechtelidis and Kioupkiolis [4], p. 2, have given rise to the search for and emergence of spaces that are based on collaboration and where "democratic, egalitarian, creative ideas, community through different sustainable relationships between human beings and nature" are promoted.…”

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Agüita: Educational Commons, Arts and Well-Being

del Moral-Espín,

Serván-Melero,

Gallego-Noche

et al. 2024

UNIPA Springer Series

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This chapter focuses on a specific experience of educational commons: the Agüita creative workshops in Seville and Jerez de la Frontera, two Andalusian cities in the south of Spain. They are afterschool workshops for young people whose focus is listening to the participants and collaborative work through art. Specifically, this chapter addresses how artistic work nourishes and reinforces the tripartite structure of the commons and favours the practices of caring, cooperating and sharing, which are fundamental in developing the educational commons. To this end, four specific actions developed within the framework of the workshops are presented. In some of them, the sessions are open to specialists and artists who share their knowledge and dialogue about the processes of knowledge generation and artistic production with the young people. In others, it is the young people who go out to investigate and propose actions for intervention in the public space through art. In both cases, actions are guided by the logic of care and the promotion of well-being on different levels.

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Youth Heteropolitics in Crisis-Ridden Greece

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Pulled in and pushed out of politics: The impact of neoliberalism on young people’s differing political consumerist motivations in the UK and Greece

Pulled in and pushed out of politics: The impact of neoliberalism on young people’s differing political consumerist motivations in the UK and Greece

Media education and educational commons for youth civic engagement. A case study from the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH

Agüita: Educational Commons, Arts and Well-Being

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