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Negotiating policy ideas: Participatory action research projects across five European countries
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Introduction - Between 2019 and 2021, 199 adolescents collaborated with adults in 15 participatory action research projects, called Youth Alliances, to contribute to system-directed obesity prevention in five EU countries. We investigated if and how these Youth Alliances included diverse youth, enhanced engagement, generated policy proposals and changed problem perception.
Theory
We assessed the Youth Alliances from a micro-sociological perspective of negotiated order and attended to what we call third order effects: that participatory action provides time and space to renegotiate meaning.
Methodology
We used a case-comparative interpretive framework to attend to complexity. Based on collaborative and comparatively triangulated observations, documents and contextual data, we studied adaptations to Youth Alliances due to contextual demands and local contingencies in micro-interactions.
Results
Youth Alliances led to the involvement of adolescents from diverse backgrounds who participated meaningfully in a form of partnership, generated a wide variety of policy proposals, and learned about obesogenic systems, policies and participation in the process.
Discussion and conclusion
A focus on meaning-making and interaction reveals how one participation approach can have multiple and even contradictory outcomes depending on non-linear, emergent and contingent local interactions. Some of the outcomes represent well-known second order effects (e.g., changing power relations). But we also point to what we call third order effects: specific activities generated time and space for social interactions in which novel meaning could arise and consolidate.
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Europa
Palavras-chave
Symbolic Interaction Youth Complexity Multisite Collaboration Participatory Action Estilos de Vida e Impacto na Saúde Nutrição Aplicada
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Ethics, Med Public Health. 2023 Jun;28:100905. doi:10.1016/j.jemep.2023.100905. Epub 2023 May 18
Editora
Elsevier