Youth political participation in transnational agoras

Sofia Laine

PhD Candidate,

Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki

Research setting

Young peoples’ political participation in

transnational political meetings

Mostly 17-30-years-old Freedom=

diversity of the forms of political actions = room for creativityDifferent form of knowledge takes place in different forms of political participation

Participants come form

several different countries.

Transnational themes.

World Social Forums(2006 Bamako, 2007 Nairobi and 2009 Belém),

European Social Forum (2008 Malmö),Global Young Greens Foundin Conference (2007

Nairobi), EU Presidency Youth Event (2007 Hyvinkää)

Articles and timetable1. Laine, Sofia & Gretschel, Anu (2009) Whose arena the EU youth policy is?

Young participants’ involvement and influence in EU youth policy from their own points of view: Case of EU Presidency Youth Event in Hyvinkää, Finland. Young 17(2), pp. 191–215.

2. Laine, Sofia (2009) Contestatory Performative Acts in the Transnational Political Meetings. Societies Without Borders 4(3), pp. 398–429.

3. Laine, Sofia (forthcoming, fall 2011) Grounded globalizations of transnational social movement. Ethnographic Analysis on Free Hugs Campaign at the World Social Forum Belém 2009. Ephemera – theory and politics in organization

4. Laine, Sofia (under construction) Methodological cosmopolitanism. In Haverinen, Ahponen and Harinen (eds.) Methodological nationalism – transnational reality: crossing civic cultural borderlines.

• Preliminary examination of the dissertation June– September. Corrections in October.

• Submitting to Faculty: November-December• Defense: January-February 2012