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Running Head: POLITICS 1

POLITICS 3

Politics

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According to the theory of the everyday politics, politics is perceived as a set of values that evolves around the pleasure of living together as social groups that re not permanent that are formed at the local level. The social groups build a feeling of sovereignty over an individual's existence and are characterized by specific behaviors and values. Everyday politics theory is crucial in understanding the emerging forms of political actions that may be identified in youth leisure practices. These practices are such as EDMC (Colman S and J Gotze, 2001).

The theory suggests that there is a need to consider everyday politics as part of a series of practices translated as political responses. The main components of everyday politics are solidarity and belonging, sociality and proxemics, vitality and puissance, sovereignty over an individual’s existence, and hedonism. Everyday politics has been significant in comprehending the additional forms of political activism and gives rooms for extensive definitions of political participation, even those that have no agenda for social change. Neo tribalism is another form of politics where people move between small group temporary groups that are differentiated by lifestyle and values. It is regarded as political because of owning their ethics. They can create moments in living out their own values; individuals develop a feeling of sovereignty over their existence. These neo-tribes enables individuals to have a sense of belonging and have the pleasure of being sociable (Graffin C, 2005).

According to the theory, participation in electronic dance music culture (EDMC) created moments for participants where they would live out certain value systems to those that represented their dominating culture. Doing this also built some sovereignty over the existence of the individuals. The theory enables us to appreciate young people's activities in their terms even though they do not take part in official political institutions. It is not a must for young people to develop their participation in a political way because, for them, taking part in EDMC is enough (Kelly P, 2006).

I agree with the proposal that EDMC is political despite its apolitical nature. This is due to the fact that it gives the participant a sense of sovereignty through them living out some set of values defined by their cultures. It is not necessarily a must for one to participate in official political activities for one to be considered political. I agree that politics should be defined through various other activities. Through this, it will be found that very many individuals political, mostly young people (Colman S and J Gotze, 2001).

References

Colman, S. and J. Götze (2001) Bowling Together: On line Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation. London: Hansard Society.

Griffin, C. (2005) 'Challenging Assumptions about Youth Political Participation: Critical Insights from Great Britain', in J. For brig (ed.) Revisiting Youth.

Kelly, P. (2006) 'The Entrepreneurial Self and "Youth at-Risk": Exploring the Horizons of Identity in the Twenty-first Century', Journal of Youth Studies 9(1): 17-32