"Youth" Making Us Fit: On Europe as Operator of Political Technologies

Autor/inn/en	Olsson, Ulf; Petersson, Kenneth; Krejsler, John B.
Titel	"Youth" Making Us Fit: On Europe as Operator of Political Technologies
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 10 (2011) 1, S.1-10 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.2304/eerj.2011.10.1.1
Schlagwörter	Free Enterprise System; Foreign Countries; Youth; Political Issues; Politics of Education; Citizenship; Governance; Government Role; Social Action; Nationalism; Citizen Participation; European Union + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freie Wirtschaft; Ausland; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Politischer Faktor; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Staatsbürgerschaft; Education; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Soziales Handeln; Nationalismus; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung
Abstract	This article problematizes the construction of youth as a "driving force" in the contemporary configuration of the European Union (EU) as an educational and political space. The study draws empirical nourishment out of documents that are central to the ongoing formation of the Union, be it White Papers, scripts or memos concerning political arenas such as youth and education policies and the Bologna process. Theoretically the article draws on insights from post-Foucauldian traditions with a focus on mentalities, subject constructions, technologies and practices operating within the ongoing governmentalization of Europe. Central questions are "who" and "what" the problematization of youth as political technology is about. Drawing on homologies in the coding of citizen, independent of age, the authors claim that problematization of youth is directed to all of us. We are all, in the name of youth, expected to constantly "adapt" ourselves in compliance with the aim of the Lisbon process. Furthermore, as the Union itself is coded in a similar way, we may even claim that the EU, literally speaking, appears as a youth project in itself. Thus, the notion that youth can be seen as political rationality that becomes a powerful driving force in the ongoing European project. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10