“How and to what extent do young people differ in their attitudes

towards politics according to their socio-economic positions, gender

and ethnicity?”

Pınar Uyan Semerci

definitional problems :

• Young people? Who are they?

– Diversity?

– Commonality?

Needs and rights

Politics? Attitude towards politics?

Redefining the boundaries of politics?

Political participation?

Needs and Rights • Needs?

• How do we define our needs?

• identification of needs remains at the heart of politics

• The politics of needs interpretation: who decides who

needs what? (Fraser)

• Individual vs collective needs

Social Justice

Recognition? Redistribution? Participation?

• N. Fraser three dimensional account of social justice

• Distributive injustice or maldistribution

• Status inequality or misrecognition

• Misrepresentation

How can young people with different backgrounds and different identities have an

access to ‘politics’?

• Examples from qualitative research (Uyan-Semerci; Neyzi & Darıcı; Basak-Sanat; …)

– ‘Young’ ‘woman’ 22 years old- married with a child (care politics)

– ‘Young’ people of Diyarbakır and Muğla ‘Özgürüm ama mecburiyet var - I am free but there is an obligation’ life experiences; language; migration

– ‘young’ worker (textile; factory; construction; seasonal worker-agriculture)

– ……

Questions :

1-definitional problems: young? politics?

2-participation-justice? Who are excluded? Politics of need interpretation?

3- How can young people with different backgrounds and different identities have an access to ‘politics’?

thank you…