Session Information
19 SES 06, Creativity and Performativity Policies, Programmes and Practices in Europe (Part 2)
Symposium continued from 19 SES 05
Time:
2008-09-11
10:30-12:00
Room:
A1 316
Chair:
Geoff Troman
Discussant:
Bob Jeffrey
Contribution
An ethnographic study conducted in a Youth House in the North of Portugal aimed to account for juvenile strategies for visibility and for recognition.
The daily lives of this institution revealed to be spaces of conflict, synthesis and mediation between tensions which are consequence of the different expectations that fall upon this type of institutions: political, social, local and individual expectations.
A tension that seems to mediate and organise the institutional praxis comes from the political requirements to achieve more visible results regarding excellence and efficiency and from local demands, especially from young people. If, on the one hand, the Youth House has to manage political end economic demands for its own survival and continuity, being, therefore, determined and regulated by performativity and management discourses, which are often uncritical and not transparent, on the other hand it is also made of more chaotic, exuberant and unforeseen realities, impossible to categorize or to erase and for which the indicators and evidences, so important to a system of comparability, are difficult to establish.
If this institution has, as its main concern, the inclusion and education of young people, how does the Youth House manage the productivity requirements, not always compatible with the day-to-day realities, with a significant creativity for the different individual projects, trying not to reproduce inequalities?
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