Dear all,

The ESA Youth and Generation research network is pleased to announce
the coming midterm conference ?Negotiation, navigation, resistance -
young people?s agency in post-crisis reality in Europe?. The midterm
will take place in Kluszkowce (near Krakow), Poland, on September
10th-13th 2014.

Please find below the call for papers. The deadline for sending
abstracts is 20th of March 2014.

Yours sincerely,

Aurelie Mary
On behalf the Youth and Generation board.

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ESA ?Youth and Generation Research Network? MidTerm Conference 2014:
?Negotiation, navigation, resistance - young people?s agency in
post-crisis reality in Europe?

September 10th-13th 2014, in Kluszkowce, near Krakow, Poland

Call for papers

Young people have been hit harshly by the economic crisis in Europe,
mostly by the difficult labour market situation, which has impacted
their transitions, their quality of life and also the feelings of
security. Consequently, in recent years, the analysis within youth
studies has paid much attention to the structural conditions of young
people lives and resulting inequalities. To counterbalance this
tendency, though not to undermine the impact of structural conditions
on young people?s lives, we propose to consider young people as active
agents, to examine the ways they might
overcome/reconstruct/renegotiate the constellations within which they
live their lives. The conference encourages the debate on tensions and
interrelations between structure and agency in young people?s lives,
while also concentrating on re-discovering youth agency within
European youth studies, looking at young people as a dynamic body or
as individuals finding the spaces for self-expression and change, or
as initiators of conflicts or protests. Youth as a life stage has
been associated with boldness and rebellion, as well as innovation,
imagination, fun or creativity; to what extent do the current
conditions allow for the expression and realisation of these values by
young people? Do we find spaces where youth agency is being realised
and encouraged? Do we see new forms of youth self-expressions? What
kinds of constraints prevail?


Objectives:

- To raise discussions of youth agency and its expressions within the
post-crisis reality
- To identify the proactive strategies undertaken by young people and
their social spaces
- To discuss the tensions between structural and agency-based
approaches to studying young people lives
- To analyse diverse methodological approaches to study youth agency
and allowing self-expression of young people, giving young people
voice in research


Key note speakers:

We will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Alan France from
University of Auckland in New Zealand and Professor Krystyna
Szafraniec, from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.


Call for papers deadline:

Participants interested in giving a paper are invited, in the first
instance, to submit abstracts to both Aurelie Mary
(aurelie.mary[at]uta.fi) and Ewa Krzaklewska
(ewa.krzaklewska[AT]uj.edu.pl) by 20th March 2014.

The information requested during abstract submission includes:
1) name(s), affiliation(s) and email of all the author(s);
2) contact details of presenting author (postal address, and telephone
in addition to email);
3) title of proposed presentation;
4) abstract text up to 300 words;
5) indication of the type of fee you would prefer (individual or double room);
6) information for the invoice.


Successful applicants will be notified after the completion of
abstract review by the Board of Youth and Generation Research Network.
  As the conference has a seminar format with longer times assigned to
each presentation (25 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for
discussion), a maximum of 40 persons will be accepted as conference
participants.


Location and conference fee:

The conference venue is located in the Polish mountains in Osada
Czorsztyn ? in Kluszkowce (read more at http://www.osada.czorsztyn.pl/
). Some participants will be accommodated nearby in Willa Jordanówka.


The transport from Krakow to the conference venue is organised by the
local organisers and the costs are included in the conference fee.
There will be a bus transport from the airport and/or city center to
the conference location and back. The bus will depart from the city
center at 5pm. The airport you should fly to is Krakow Airport. Please
make sure your flight arrives to Krakow before 4pm on the 10th of
September.


The fee for the conference is 280 Euros (for a single room) and 230
Euros (for a double room ? spaces limited) which includes conference
fee, accommodation, food and transfers between Krakow and the
conference venue. The fee has to be paid through the bank transfer
only after received information on acceptance of abstract. Unavoidably
international bank transfer charges have to be paid by the applicant.


Please note that all accepted participants will be required to be (or
become) members of ESA and affiliate members of the Youth and
Generation network in order to be able to participate in the conference.


Organisation:
Youth & Generation ESA Research Network


Local organiser:
The Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland
ul. Grodzka 52, 31-044 Kraków
www.socjologia.uj.edu.pl


Contact:
Ewa Krzaklewska, ewa.krzaklewska[at]uj.edu.pl
The Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland


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YTT Aurélie Mary
Yhteiskunta- ja kulttuuritieteiden yksikkö
(Sosiologia)
33014 Tampereen yliopisto
P. +358 50 436 5458

Dr Aurélie Mary
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
(Sociology)
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
tel. +358 50 436 5458