Affirmative governmentality and the politics of youth inclusion: A critical analysis of youth voice and engagement in dominant political discourse in Ontario
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Abstract
While a robust literature tracks the ways in which racialized youth are excluded from dominant spaces, this article examines the effects of policies and programs that invite them in. The growing interest in youth inclusion and participation can be linked to key global influences such as the increasing shift towards asset-based and Positive Youth Development (PYD) models, that currently influences government policy and funding strategies in Canada and other countries. U sing Foucault’s governmentality framework, I engage in a brief examination of Ontario’s document, Stepping Up: A Strategic Framework to Help Ontario’s Youth Succeed (2013), to understand how youth inclusion, participation, and civic engagement are imagined. This article seeks to disturb current constructs of marginalized youth voice and inclusion within dominant discourse in Canada and argues that these discourses function as a form of affirmative governmentality. I discuss the conditions of meaningful youth inclusion and participation, which requires questioning normative constructs of youth, acknowledging the structural oppressions experienced by young people, and working with youth to understand their own notions of participation. La gouvernementalite positive et les politiques d'inclusion des jeunes: Une analyse critique de la voix et l'engagement politique des jeunes dans le discours politique dominant en Ontario. Resume Bien qu'il existe deja beaucoup de donnees sur les manieres dont les jeunes racialises sont exclus des espaces dominants, cet article se penche sur les effets des politiques et programmes qui veulent les inclure. L'interet croissant pour la participation et l'inclusion des jeunes est peut-etre lie a des influences globales majeures, comme le virement vers des modeles tels le developpement fonde sur les acquis et le developpement positif des jeunes, qui presentement a beaucoup d'influence sur les politiques et le financement gouvernemental au Canada et ailleurs. Utilisant le concept de gouvernementalite de Foucault, j'examine le document de l'Ontario Stepping Up: A Strategic Framework to Help Ontario’s Youth Succeed (2013), afin de comprendre comment l'inclusion, la participation, et l'engagement civique des jeunes, sont imagines. Cet article veut troubler les constructions courantes de la voix et de l'inclusion des jeunes marginalises dans les discours dominants au Canada. Je propose que ces discours servent en tant que gouvernementalite positive. Je discute des conditions qui creent une inclusion et une participation veritables des jeunes, ce qui exige questionner les constructions normative de la jeunesse, tout en reconnaissant que les oppressions structurelles auxquelles les jeunes font face, et travailler a comprendre leurs propres notions de participation. Mots clefs: participation et inclusion des jeunes; gouvernementalite; politiques des jeunes
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.046 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".