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“How and to what extent do young people differ in their attitudes
towards politics according to their socio-economic positions, gender
and ethnicity?”
Pınar Uyan Semerci
definitional problems :
• Young people? Who are they?
– Diversity?
– Commonality?
Needs and rights
Politics? Attitude towards politics?
Redefining the boundaries of politics?
Political participation?
Needs and Rights • Needs?
• How do we define our needs?
• identification of needs remains at the heart of politics
• The politics of needs interpretation: who decides who
needs what? (Fraser)
• Individual vs collective needs
Social Justice
Recognition? Redistribution? Participation?
• N. Fraser three dimensional account of social justice
• Distributive injustice or maldistribution
• Status inequality or misrecognition
• Misrepresentation
How can young people with different backgrounds and different identities have an
access to ‘politics’?
• Examples from qualitative research (Uyan-Semerci; Neyzi & Darıcı; Basak-Sanat; …)
– ‘Young’ ‘woman’ 22 years old- married with a child (care politics)
– ‘Young’ people of Diyarbakır and Muğla ‘Özgürüm ama mecburiyet var - I am free but there is an obligation’ life experiences; language; migration
– ‘young’ worker (textile; factory; construction; seasonal worker-agriculture)
– ……
Questions :
1-definitional problems: young? politics?
2-participation-justice? Who are excluded? Politics of need interpretation?
3- How can young people with different backgrounds and different identities have an access to ‘politics’?
thank you…