The style thematic group is interested in how styles of participation can be compared across the case studies of youth participation in eight European cities included in PARTISPACE. The notion of style is concerned with the performance of participation or put more simply the ‘how and the what’ of participation. The focus of analysis is primarily at the group level, using a grounded theory approach the group has compared the case studies in terms of repertories of practices, reasons and aims, internal/external relationships and political meaning. Researchers from this thematic group are working towards the second draft of the thematic report, consisting of a state of the art section, which outlines the relationship between style and participation at a conceptual level, followed by four analytical chapters each primarily comparing two case studies. Researchers from the style thematic group are looking forward to bringing the material together and thinking about what the implications are for how they can understand the relationship between styles and participation, also more broadly, the considerations for policy and practice.
