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In recent years, the EU Youth Dialogue (EUYD) gained significant popularization as an important political mechanism through which young people in dialogue with policymakers from the local to the EU level jointly formulate youth policies. In an ethnographic study of the sixth cycle of the EUYD, I applied the Foucauldian analytics of government to analyze how the voice was constructed. In contrast to the representations that EUYD annuls hierarchies and offers a space for equal discussion between young people and policymakers, thus producing a genuine voice, I argue that the construction of the voice is always under the influence of various power relations that form specific voices. I illuminate how, through concrete techniques and micro-practices, EUYD worked as a disciplinary technology that sought a docile voice of the youth and at the same time offered a space for shaping the subjectivity of young delegates as active and responsible EU citizens.

Povzetek. Članek obravnava razumevanje moči, ki
predstavlja enega ključnih politoloških konceptov v
teorijah deliberativne demokracije in njene temeljne
kritike, agonistične demokracije. Prek foucaultovskega
branja moči pokaže, da tako v deliberativni demokraciji kot tudi pri agonistiki prevladuje negativno razumevanje moči kot prisile in konfliktov. To pomeni, da
teoretske predpostavke deliberativne demokracije z
dojemanjem moči kot opresivne sile ne zmorejo pojasniti političnega. Izključno negativno dojemanje moči
pri agonistiki pa onemogoča prepoznanje, da ideje in
prakse deliberacije že oblikujejo politično.
Ključni pojmi: politična teorija, deliberativna demokracija, moč, agonistika, Foucault