Speaking Youth to Power: Tokenistic or Meaningful Representations? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the ‘European Year of Youth 2022’ and the ‘Year of ASEAN Youth 2022’
This thesis examines how young people are represented in the discourse and policy outputs of the ‘European Year of Youth 2022’ and the ‘Year of ASEAN Youth 2022’ and in what capacity the neoliberal logics of development are reflected in the discursive representations of youth. The analysis presented continuously explores how these initiatives construct and frame youth political participation and,