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Title  |
MYPLACE: Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement |
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| Coordinator |
Alves, Nuno de Almeida
Cairns, David
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| Researchers |
Alves, Nuno de Almeida
Cairns, David
Alexandre, Ana
Carvalho, Tiago
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| Researchers from other institutions |
Hilary Pilkington (Universidade de Warwick) |
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| Abstract |
MYPLACE explores how young people’s social participation is shaped by the shadows (past, present and future) of totalitarianism and populism in Europe. Conceptually, it goes beyond the comparison of discrete national ‘political cultures’ or reified classifications of political heritage (‘postcommunist’/’liberal democratic’); it is premised rather on the pan-European nature of a range of radical and populist political and philosophical traditions and the cyclical rather than novel nature of the popularity they currently enjoy. Empirically, MYPLACE employs a combination of survey, interview and ethnographic research instruments to provide new, pan-European data that not only measure levels of participation but capture the meanings young people attach to it. Analytically, through its specific focus on ‘youth’ and the historical and cultural contextualization of young people’s social participation, MYPLACE replaces the routine, and often abstract, iteration of the reasons for young people’s ‘disengagement’ from politics with an empirically rich mapping of young people’s understandings of the civic and political space that they inhabit. In policy terms, MYPLACE identifies the obstacles to, and facilitators of, young people’s reclamation of the European political arena as a place for them. |
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| Keywords |
Totalitarianism and populism, Radical/extreme politics, Political heritage, Social Participation, Youth |
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| Research lines |
Line III - Ways of life and public policies
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| Begining date |
01/06/2011 |
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| Expected end date |
31/05/2015 |
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| Partnerships |
University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Coordinator); Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; Tallinn University, Estonia; University of SS Cyril and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia; University of Bremen, Germany; Friedrich Schiller Universität, Germany; University of Eastern Finland, Finland; University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-ISCTE), Lisbon University Institute, Portugal; Scientific Research Centre ‘Region’, Ul’ianovsk State University, Russian Federation; Daugavpils University, Latvia; CRRC, Georgia; Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Croatia; Pompeu Fabra University, Spain; University of Debrecen, Hungary; Panteion University of Athens, Greece |
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| Project type |
Funded research |
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| Funding entities |
Comissão Europeia
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| Programme |
(7º Programa Quadro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico) |
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| Website |
http://www.fp7-myplace.eu/
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