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Engaging adolescents’ negative emotional experiences as a resource for decision-making
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Swedish Language.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5590-5980
2023 (English)In: Research on Children and Social Interaction, ISSN 2057-5807, E-ISSN 2057-5815, Vol. 7, no 2, p. 190-213Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this study, youth participation in a participatory democracy project is examined at the intersection of the deontic and emotional order. The data are drawn from a yearlong participatory democracy project where 14–15-year-olds meet with politicians and public servants to decide on a vision for how the community should be in 2050. By analysing their interactions, the present study shows how adult community representatives elicit adolescents’ negative emotional experiences and transform these into deontic building blocks in the impending decision-making. The analysis shows how the transformation of adolescents’ negative emotional experiences casts the adolescents as emotional perceivers and deontic objects, a role they are shown to comply with. Furthermore, this sets up a proximal deontic order that, in turn, re-establishes a distal deontic order, both in which the adolescents’ positions are subordinated and regulated. Ultimately, by inviting youths to participate in the democracy project itself as well as eliciting their negative emotional experiences the politicians and public servants are shown to use the youths as emotional gearwheels in an already set larger deontic machinery.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Equinox Publishing, 2023. Vol. 7, no 2, p. 190-213
Keywords [en]
decision-making, participatory democracy, adolescents, emotions, youth participation, deontics
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General Language Studies and Linguistics
Research subject
Studies in the Educational Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-49861DOI: 10.1558/rcsi.21921OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-49861DiVA, id: diva2:1693545
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Available from: 2022-09-07 Created: 2022-09-07 Last updated: 2024-09-02Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Boosting young citizens’ deontic status: Interactional allocation of rights-to-decide in participatory democracy meetings
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Boosting young citizens’ deontic status: Interactional allocation of rights-to-decide in participatory democracy meetings
2022 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This thesis explores the social organization of rights-to-decide in participatory democracy meetings where adolescents are invited. In such meetings, young citizens are given the opportunity to influence decision-makers and participate in determining future political action. Specifically, this thesis focuses on how social inclusion in decision-making is accomplished in adolescent-politician interaction as well as youth-peer interaction. 

Employing a Conversation Analytic perspective, naturally occurring participatory democracy meetings are analyzed to explore how adolescents are offered possibilities to influence decisions. The data investigated consists of a popup democracy workshop and a yearlong participatory democracy project (approx. 81 h), where adolescents are invited to contribute to decision-making. 

Three papers comprise the current thesis and examine 1) how adolescents are encouraged to participate in decision-making, 2) how a youth participatory role is delimited, and 3) how jointness is accomplished in decision-making. These questions are approached with a social deontic framework where human powerplay is investigated through participants’ interactional negotiations of rights to determine action. The analysis reveals that the participating adults’ pep talks and instructions offer a narrow adolescent role of influence. Inclusion therefore ultimately becomes alignment to adults' conceptions of who the adolescents are and how they should contribute to decision-making. Furthermore, the analysis shows how adult community representatives elicit adolescents’ negative emotional experiences and transform these into deontic building blocks in the impending decision-making. Community representatives’ superior deontic rights permeate the initiatives of inclusion directed at adolescents. Regarding jointness, the analysis reveals that, in adolescent-politician interaction, jointness is not accomplished, rather asymmetries of power are re-established by participants. However, in adolescent peer interaction joint decision-making is accomplished through verbal, embodied and material resources. 

By studying interactional efforts of inclusion, this thesis tackles critical aspects of the practices that facilitate and constrain political participation. The thesis extends our understanding of youth inclusion in decision-making by illuminating complex challenges inherent in the practice of inviting adolescents to participatory democracy meetings. By tackling these issues, this thesis also contributes theoretically and analytically to central notions within social deontics and research on joint decision-making and points out crucial future directions for research on inclusion and political action. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2022. p. 170
Series
Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations, ISSN 1652-7399 ; 209
Keywords
youth participation, decision-making, inclusion, deontics, participatory democracy, jointness, conversation analysis
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Research subject
Studies in the Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-49856 (URN)978-91-89504-13-4 (ISBN)978-91-89504-14-1 (ISBN)
Public defence
2022-10-07, MB503, Alfred Nobels allé 7, Huddinge, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2022-09-15 Created: 2022-09-06 Last updated: 2024-09-02Bibliographically approved

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