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From: "Sini Perho" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Youth Study Mailing List" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:25 AM
Subject: Call for Papers: Young Citizens, Professional Power and
Responsibility of Youth Research
Greetings from Helsinki!
You are most welcome to participate the 4th Annual Conference of the Finnish
Youth Research Society. The aim of the conference is to discuss about the
methodological issues and the new challenges for youth research, more
spesifically on young citizens, professional power and responsibility of
youth research.
Wish to see you in Gustavelund, Finland in November 2005!
Sini Perho
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INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Annual Conference of the Finnish Youth Research Society
Young Citizens, Professional Power and Responsibility of Youth Research
Gustavelund conference hotel, Tuusula, Finland 2.-4.11.2005
The Finnish Youth Research Society invites youth researchers and other
persons intersted of the topic and announces a call for papers for its 4th
Conference on youth research, to be held in Gustvalund conference hotel
http://www.gustavelund.fi/eng_index.html Tuusula, Finland from the 2nd to
4th of November 2005. The uniting theme and the focus of the seminar will be
in young citizens and the questions of youth research responsibility.
European knowledge of the political participation and citizenship of young
people is of high quality. Yet it remains to be clarified whether the brisk
turns in the development of information and information-gathering culture
are linked with young people's problems with democracy and (political)
participation. The concept of 'new politics' of the youth has emerged in
consequence to the fact that young people are politically active. However,
simultaneously it has been noted that young people do not take a
particularly active role in democracy.
Several groups of experts are currently in the process of producing a view
of a European civil society and young citizenship. The problem is, how could
the researchers apply their methods and data so that they would respect or
even inspire the political and democratic citizenship of the young? Or do
the currently applied research methods have a politics of their own? Where
does the responsibility of youth research lie?
And what about the changes brought by the EU and globalization: How have
methods, skills of comparison and mixed empirical data developed with regard
to young citizens and their participation cultures? How will the new
EUYOUPART and European Social Survey projects analyze and compare political
participation of the young?
Among other aspects, those mentioned above concerning political youth
citizenship and its trends of development will be critically discussed and
evaluated during the 4th Annual Conference of the Finnish Youth Research
Society. The Conference will work in plenum sessions and debates are to be
continued in thematic working groups.
See the preliminary programme: http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/english
Proposals from all fields of study are invited, and the program committee
especially welcomes proposals on the following themes:
a.. Young Citizenships
* Young citizenships in the Europe in the light of empirical and
comparative studies
* Studies of youth movements and activism to explore young people of
different citizenships
b.. Method on Youth Research
* Politics and data issues of new methods, and triangulation experiences
in the studies on young people
* Theoretical-methodological solutions (action research, ethnography
etc.)as a personal politics of an individual researcher
c.. The Dilemma of Evaluation Researcher
* Social and political roles of researchers, evaluators, and new
professionals in the production of youth citizenships
d.. Euro Programmes: Governing or Activating Young People?
* Do the Euro programmes and their evaluation practices provide applicable
instruments for symbolic governing or power?
* What are, for example, the effects of the White Book of youth politics
rhetoric or the "best practises" of ESR structural funds on youth
citizenship and the related democratic or political discussion?
Papers will be considered on any related theme and the other forms of
presentation will be considered on request. For submit your admission and
proposed papers, please fill the registration and application form on the
web page: http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/english. As indicated on the
application form, please submit an abstract of 300 words or less and include
three keywords to describe your paper.
Application and deadlines
a.. Application form should be filled in before the Thursday 15th of
September 2005.
b.. Notification of acceptance of the participation will be sent before
the Wednesday 21st of September 2005.
c.. The final versions of the papers presented should be sent to the
organiser before Tuesday 17th of October 2005. The papers will be available
on web before the conference commences. Papers will initially be available
in downloadable pdf- or Word-format.
Invited lecturers and commentators:
Daniel Bertaux PhD, Doc. (Professor, Director of Research, French National
Center for Scientific Research) and Doc. (University of Helsinki, Department
of Social Policy): Since the mid-1990's Bertaux has had his main interest on
studying across Europe phenomena of precariousness and 'précarisation', of
the structural and collective processes underlying them, and of action
individuals and households initiate and hold to try and cope with the threat
of exclusion. His methodological work on the method of life stories and his
empirical studies of artisanal bakery in France are well-known in
sociological circles worldwide.
Sami Borg Docent (Director, Finnish Social Science Data Archive)Sami Borg is
a Finnish political scientist, and since 1999, the director of the Finnish
Social Science Data Archive. Based on comparative approach and survey data,
most of his books and articles have focused on political attitudes and
opinions, political participation, and electoral behavior. Many articles
have had international comparative perspective, and several have paid
special attention to the beliefs and action of young adults.
Tommi Hoikkala PhD (Research director, The Finnish Youth Research Network)
Main research interests: (1) sociology of generation, (2) baby boomers, (3)
narrative research interview
Marja Holmila PhD (Research Professor, National Research and Development
Centre for Welfare and Health in Finland, Stakes)
Kari Paakkunainen Lic.Pol.Sc, (Researcher, The Finnish Youth Research
Network) Main research interests: (1) Political Participation of Young
People in Europe (EUYOUPART-Project) (2) political concents, (3)social
marginality, (4) modern youth policy (5) life politics
Elina Palola (Coordinator, National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health in Finland)
Kati Rantala PhD (Senior Researcher, The Police College of Finland) Main
research interests: (1) Alcohol and Drug Research (2) Substance Abuse (3)
The Organisational Work related to Substance Abuse
J. P. Roos PhD (Professor, University of Helsinki, Department of Social
Policy)
Annikki Savio PhD (Researcher, National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health in Finland)
Leena Suurpää PhD (Research coordinator, The Finnish Youth Research Network)
Main research interests: (1) racism, (2)cultural difference, (4)communality,
(5) collective identity
William Walters PhD (Associate Professor, University of Carleton, Canada)
Main research interests: (1) Transnational politics and governance in Europe
from the point of view of the "history of the present", (2) The governance
of mobility in the regions of the global North (with special emphasis on the
history of "illegal immigration"), (3) Narrative approaches to political
science, (4) Genealogies of social citizenship
Petri Virtanen PhD, Doc. (Net Effect oy/University of Helsinki) Main
research interests: (1) the methodology related to public administration
evaluation, (2) organisation providing research, (3) organisation research
Questions can be addressed to Anna Sell (seminar coordinator) [log in to unmask],
tel. +358-9-495 164
Or to the members of the program committee:
Helena Helve: PhD, dos.(Comparative Religion/University of Helsinki)
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Tommi Hoikkala: PhD, Research director (The Finnish Youth Research Network)
[log in to unmask], tel. +358-9-348 24 327
Sofia Laine: Coordinator, [log in to unmask] tel. +358-9-348 24 325
Kari Paakkunainen: Lic.Pol.Sc, (University of Helsinki, Department of
Political Science) [log in to unmask], tel +358-9-191 24907
Sini Perho: Researcher [log in to unmask], tel. +358-9-493 205
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