Negotiating policy ideas: Participatory action research projects across five European countries

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dc.abstract.enIntroduction 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.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorBröer, Christian
dc.contributor.authorVeltkamp, Gerlieke
dc.contributor.authorAyuandini, Sherria
dc.contributor.authorBaillergeau, Évelyne N.
dc.contributor.authorMoerman, Gerben
dc.contributor.authorde Sauvage, R.
dc.contributor.authorBanik, Anna
dc.contributor.authorŁuszczyńska, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorRito, Ana Isabel
dc.contributor.authorMendes, Sofia
dc.contributor.authorKlepp, Knut Inge
dc.contributor.authorHelleve, Arnfinn
dc.contributor.authorLien, Nanna
dc.contributor.authorKaur Grewal, N.
dc.date.access2023-05-18
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-11T12:23:30Z
dc.date.available2024-01-11T12:23:30Z
dc.date.created2023-04-17
dc.date.issued2023-05-18
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dc.description.grantnumberCO-CREATE; European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, Grant/Award Number: 774210
dc.description.granttitleConfronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth
dc.description.physical1-12
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume28
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jemep.2023.100905
dc.identifier.issn2352-5525
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/354
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352552523000361?via%3Dihub
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOTHER
dc.subject.enMulti-sited collaboration
dc.subject.enParticipatory action
dc.subject.enSymbolic interaction
dc.subject.enYouth
dc.subject.enComplexity
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dc.titleNegotiating policy ideas: Participatory action research projects across five European countries
dc.title.journalEthics, Medicine and Public Health
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle