The conference explores how young people engage with past, present and future in everyday lives and practices. For a great number of young people around the world today everyday life is marked by lack of possibilities, boredom, crisis and uncertainty. Such situations create longings for futures that are different from the experienced present. The search for potentially different horizons spans engagement in violent mobilization, radicalisation and innovative individual strategies designed to break away from negative or violent societal conditions – often lodged in a single young person navigating difficult dilemmas and inherent contradictions between possibility and experience.

The conference is a collaborative effort marking the conclusion of two research programs, ‘Youth, futurity and agency’, Aarhus University and ‘The violent mobilization of political youth’, RCT and University of Copenhagen. Along with a series of invited key-note presentations the conference includes two parallel workshops organized by the respective research programs:

• Youth between inertia and novelty

• Precarious prospects

Workshops

The workshop, "Precarious prospects", focuses on violent organizations and youth politics. It explores how organizations invite youth to participate in politics in particular ways, and how youth seek to navigate organizations and events in order to enhance their life-chances and secure their well-being in a potential future.


The workshop “Youth between inertia and novelty” explores the interplay between boredom and waiting, and the ways in which young people seek to break with detrimental social patterns. In doing so the workshop seeks to highlight issues such as the role of the future in everyday life and the social embededness of potentiality.

Registration

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