Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society

Introduction

Part I: Structures and new models of youth participation

1. Youth and law drafting - developing quality youth participation in legislative processes and courtrooms

2. Experimenting with youth-centred e-participation - the case of the Virtual Council

3. Intergenerational justice and learning: from responsibilisation of young people towards sustainable well-being and environmental citizenship

4. Governance of young people's participation: critical reflections

Part II: Critical views from the margins

5. Young adults' perceptions of citizenship outside and beyond labour market citizenship

6. "Am I not a lovely green-and-red, a watermelon?" Young people negotiating political participation from marginalised positions

7. Young people's climate activism on the move - case Finland

Part III: To be(come) seen and heard - but how and how to study it?

8. Participatory research with young people - too little, too much, too romanticised? Reflections on co-research with young refugees

9. Co-constructing knowledge of refugee youths' lives in Finland - epistemological notes

10. Exploring the future together with young people - methodological considerations on playfulness, joy and silence as forms of participation

11. "How on Earth does one find a job in Finland?" Reflections on using documentary film as research method in studying young asylum seekers' employment prospects

Conclusion