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1Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Young people’s lack of participation in elections has been taken as a sign that the young are wary of representative democracy and reject traditional authorities. Instead of election participation, it is expected that the young want more possibilities for direct involvement in political decision-making. Fridays for Future (FFF) is a global, youth-led climate movement that has been able to mobilize millions of young people around the world into political action (de Moor et al., 2020; Wahlström et al., 2019) in times when youth participation is generally declining, especially in traditional forms of political participation. While many have taken this as evidence that young people dismiss representative democracy in favor of a more participatory democracy, in-depth studies of their motivations are still lacking. This article helps fill this lacuna by providing a case study on Finnish F ....
Credit: Supplied. A group of four Queen’s graduate students turned their school project into a podcast everyone can listen to. Last semester, Erica Shardlow, Saskia de Wildt, Kiera McMaster, and Sam Mishos came together in associate professor and Canada research chair Heather Castleden’s GPHY/EPID 836 class: Qualitative Research Methods. They chose to pursue a creative route for their final project: a podcast. Called Getting Personal, the podcast is available on SoundCloud. It features discussions on positionality and reflexivity through an exploration of their research. The podcast has four episodes, each one focusing on a different student’s research. ....