“Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European Youth” or short: CATCH-EyoU is the title of a Horizon 2020 project funded under the same heading as PARTISPACE. Continue reading
Focus on action research: project in Frankfurt
“Grey or colourful?”
The Graffiti Crew is one Case Study of the Frankfurt Team and was involved in an action research project.
Presentation of the main findings of the case studies in Bologna
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Watch the video clip of Ilaria Pitti, post doc fellow at the University of Bologna (Italy)
Dynamo International, Brussels, 21st May 2017
Work with young women through forms of street work and the role of youth work, street work, social work, and socio-cultural animation
On May 21st 2017, Janet Batsleer was a key note speaker at an event organised by Activist Childcare in Brussels. The event was organised alongside the organisation for street workers based in Brussels, Dynamo International to launch a new publication: ‘Filles et autre minorise- e-s. Les jeunes commes les autres? Vers un travail de jeunesse accessible à tou-te-s’ Continue reading
Partispace partners at Làbas
On 10th May 2017, in the frame of the 5th consortium meeting in Bologna, partners had the opportunity to visit a self-managed social center called Làbas.
5th Consortium meeting in Bologna, 9-12th May 2017
From 9th to 12th May 2017, the fifth consortium meeting of Partispace took place in Bologna, one of the 8 major European cities where the fieldwork of the project is carried out. The department of educational sciences of the University of Bologna was welcoming the meeting which is marking the start of the third year of PARTISPACE project. Continue reading
The Tallinn Youth Space, Estonia
In August 2016, Barry Percy-Smith participated in the Tallinn Youth Space, Estonia. Continue reading
Forthcoming publications
Abstract: Young feminists online: political and social participation and feminist activism
McMahon, Gráinne and Batsleer, Janet
There are well-established historical trends that show that new and emerging forms of media are able to disrupt and then transform political and social opinion and discourse and have the capacity to break down social hierarchies in order to challenge dominant socio-cultural and political norms. Social media or “new digital media” are part of this trend and influence a reshape of socio-cultural and political norms, practices and discourses through awareness-raising, activism, and debate. Recent research has found that social media have considerable potential to engage, empower and activate young women in particular. These online spaces are often women-only and explicitly feminist (‘safe spaces’) and central to political and social activism in terms of women’s rights. The question remains, however, about how that effect evolves, and intersects with more traditional forms of activism, and ‘how and under what conditions these new digital platforms relate to citizen activism and protest politics’ (Valenzuela, 2013, p. 921).
Drawing on historic accounts of women-led spaces and public activism as generative of feminist movement, as well as accounts of contemporary online activism drawn from our current research in Manchester and Ireland, this paper explores how ‘safe enough spaces’ are mobilised for political and social activism and perspectives on the impacts of such spaces on political and social change.
Meeting with Manchester City Youth Council
On 10th November 2016, some of the PARTISPACE partners met members of the Manchester City Youth Council who were involved in the application of the City of Manchester to being the European Youth Capital 2019. Continue reading
Exploring action-research
Frankfurt “Sprayer” Group
The “sprayers” are an informal group who emerged from the shared youth cultural interest in doing graffiti. Basically, the core group consists of six young men in the age of 20 years up to mid-twenties. All of them are involved in work, apprenticeship or studies and are therefore only able to meet at the weekends. Graffiti is often perceived as vandalism, but for the graffiti sprayers it is a form of participation.